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his·to·ri·og·ra·phy       [hi-stawr-ee-og-ruh-fee, -stohr-] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -phies.
1.the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
2.the body of techniques, theories, and principles of historical research and presentation; methods of historical scholarship.
3.the narrative presentation of history based on a critical examination, evaluation, and selection of material from primary and secondary sources and subject to scholarly criteria.
4.an official history: medieval historiographies.
[Origin: 1560–70; < MF historiographie < Gk historiographía. See history, -o-, -graphy]

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his·to·ri·o·graph·ic       [hi-stawr-ee-uh-graf-ik, -stohr-] Pronunciation Key, his·to·ri·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
his·to·ri·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb
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his·to·ri·og·ra·phy       (hĭ-stôr'ē-ŏg'rə-fē, -stōr'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The principles, theories, or methodology of scholarly historical research and presentation.
  2. The writing of history based on a critical analysis, evaluation, and selection of authentic source materials and composition of these materials into a narrative subject to scholarly methods of criticism.
  3. A body of historical literature.


[French historiographie, from Old French, from Greek historiographiā : historiā, history; see history + -graphiā, -graphy.]

his·to'ri·o·graph'ic (-ē-ə-grāf'ĭk), his·to'ri·o·graph'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj., his·to'ri·o·graph'i·cal·ly adv.
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historiography

noun
1. a body of historical literature 
2. the writing of history 

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Historiography

His*to`ri*og"ra*phy\, n. The art of employment of an historiographer.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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