Classical
The father of history.
Who is Herodotus?
The period of scientific achievement where European scholars (ie. Galileo) reconsidered old ways of thinking and developed new logical approaches, open-minded and forward looking thinking.
What is the Scientific Evolution?
The definition of history.
What is the study of the past?
Two examples of 'storytelling' devices criticised in Herodotus' Histories.
What are giant ants, flying snakes, divine intervention or miracles? (Can include any of the following)
Documented William the Conqueror's conquest of England in 1066.
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
The History of the Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire.
Who is Edward Gibbon?
The definition of historiography.
What is the study of historical writing?
The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
The Bayeux tapestry was likely created by...
Who are skilled female Anglo-Saxon embroiders?
Turned the writing of history into a historical occupation.
Who is Leopold von Ranke?
Placing of an object/building/person out of its natural time frame (in a modern context).
What is an anachronism/ being anachronistic?
Thucydides famously stated, “I have therefore let each speaker express what in my view would be most suitable under the prevailing circumstances.” He applied this to a famous speech.
What is Pericles' funeral oration?
Bede's history featured miracles as a demonstration of God’s power which he hoped to turn readers towards Christianity. Provide an example.
Was it that fires were put out by power of prayer? Was it that St Alban was executed and the executioner’s eyes fell onto the ground?
Gibbon's history is influenced by two key Enlightenment ideals.
Was it corruption (brought on luxury/weakness) and religion (brought on intolerance/division/distractions)?
The number of key questions for investigating the construction of history.
Are there four?
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a __________ for all time." (History of the Peloponnesian War)
What is possession?
Find the missing terms in Bede's famous statement, “...should the reader discover any i__________ in what I have written, I humbly beg that he will not impute them to me, because as the laws of history require, I have labored honestly to transmit whatever I could ascertain from common report for the instruction of p_________ ”
What is inaccuracies and posterity?
The term used to describe a historian using the past/evidence to influence their history.
What is a reconstructionist?
This historian argued that the personal context of the historian is critically important when considering the nature of history.
E.H Carr