Gibbon
Enlightenment
What is the name for the period Gibbon lived in?
1800s
When was Macauley alive?
"as it actually was"
What did von Ranke say was the goal of history?
The USSR
What topic is Alexievich's work focused on?
Christianity
What faith did Gibbon abandon and then criticise in his books?
Whig History
What is the term for a view that history progresses in a positive direction?
Documents and eyewitnesses
What sources did von Ranke use to write his works?
"a chorus of individual voices and a collage of everyday details"
How does Alexievich describe her work?
1453
Anachronism
What is the term for something from the wrong time period appearing in a history?
Historicism
What is the name for the idea that change results from historical forces, not human choices?
First person
What perspective does Alexievich use to write her histories, even if she was not there?
Irony
What is a literary technique Gibbon uses to great effect?
Member of Parliament
What role did Macauley have in the British Government?
The title of his first book von Ranke wrote.
History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations, 1494-1514
Chernobyl Prayer
What is the name of Alexievich's book that includes a powerful description of the death of a firefighter?
Corruption and excessive zeal
What two things did Gibbon blame for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
Lays of Ancient Rome
What is the name of the book of historical poems Macauely wrote?
Venetian Relazione
What is the name of the reports from Venetian Ambassadors von Ranke used, which may have distorted his history?
Defamation of soldier's honour
What was Alexievich put on trial for for after writing 'Zinky Boys'?