|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
Esquire History of Henry Esmond The
... Read more |
|
German history 1871-1945
... Read more |
|
oral history
oral history compilation of historical data through interviews, usually tape-recorded and sometimes videotaped, with participants in, or observers of, significant events or times. Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written... Read more |
|
|
Herodotus
Herodotus , 484?-425? BC, Greek historian, called the Father of History, b. Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. Only scant knowledge of his life can be gleaned from his writings and from references to him by later writings, notably the Suda. He traveled along the coast of Asia Minor to the northern islands... Read more |
|
Berossus
Berossus a priest at Babylon in the 3rd century bc who wrote a history of Babylon which transmitted Babylonian history and astronomy to the Greek world.... Read more |
|
Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele , 1830-1902, Dutch theologian and author of a number of valuable works on the history of religion. Important is his Outlines of the History of Religion (1876, tr. 1877).... Read more |
|
prose
prose [Lat. prosa oratio= straightforward, or direct, speech], meaningful and grammatical written or spoken language that does not utilize the metrical structure, word transposition, or rhyme characteristic of poetry or verse; it is, however, raised above the level of lifeless composition or... Read more |
|
Iberia
Iberia , ancient country of Transcaucasia, roughly the eastern part of present-day Georgia. It was inhabited in earliest times by various tribes, collectively called Iberians by ancient historians, although Herodotus called them Saspirams. Between the 6th and 4th cent. BC the kingdoms of Colchis ... Read more |
|
|
Shakespeares Plays
Shakespeare's Plays Shakespeare's Plays (arranged by approximate date of composition) Play Approximate date of composition Date of first publication Sources Major characters Genre Henry VI, Part II 1590 1594 Edward Hall, Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster... Read more |
|
Social History
History, Social CRISES BIBLIOGRAPHY Social history emerged as a discipline over the course of about twenty years at the conjunction of two seemingly contradictory schools of historical writing: English social history and the French Annales school. Defined by George Macaulay Trevelyan... Read more |
|
|
The Tragedy in History: Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic History
The Tragedy in History: Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic History, by Flemming A...of this book is to compare Herodotus's history of ancient Greece and the hypothetical "Deuteronomistic ... |