HIST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Sigillography, Floruit, Cassiodorus
9 Sep 2012
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Herodotus the father of history" (d. ca. 425 bc. : ca. or c. = circa = latin; around; used when we do not know a precise date. History is a process of asking questions from historical evidence (sources; documents: critical analysis, historian as detective. The job of the historian begins with sources documents from past times. Where there is no writing there is no history": the horizons" of history. Historical evidence principally written: many, many forms, material culture = archaeology. A source can in fact be anything that has left us a trace of the past. john. Modern historians treat many different types of material as sources. Paleography (handwriting: coins (numismatics, inscriptions (epigraphy, seals (sigillography, place-names, linguistics. Historically pieces that come from the time frame we are investigating. Proximity in time and space: e. g. Fall" of roman empire in the 5th-6th centuries cassiodorus (490-
