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... universal history and deserves to be remembered . It represents a new point of view , a new attitude towards the subject of history . His sources were Greek , chiefly Timagenes , whose writing is otherwise unknown . It was a universal ...
... universal history and deserves to be remembered . It represents a new point of view , a new attitude towards the subject of history . His sources were Greek , chiefly Timagenes , whose writing is otherwise unknown . It was a universal ...
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... universal chron- icle of Hermann Contractus of Reichenau . His first continuator , his pupil Berthold who resumed the chronicle after 1055 , at first writes after the old method . But with the outbreak of the war of investiture he ...
... universal chron- icle of Hermann Contractus of Reichenau . His first continuator , his pupil Berthold who resumed the chronicle after 1055 , at first writes after the old method . But with the outbreak of the war of investiture he ...
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... universal chronicles . Already in the twelfth century , Hugo of St. Victor in a short but cogent work entitled Liber de tribus maximis circumstanciis gestorum had pointed out that the essential information in every historical event was ...
... universal chronicles . Already in the twelfth century , Hugo of St. Victor in a short but cogent work entitled Liber de tribus maximis circumstanciis gestorum had pointed out that the essential information in every historical event was ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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