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A New Method Of Studying History, Geography, & Chronology - Softcover

Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy

 
9780371389607: A New Method Of Studying History, Geography, & Chronology

Synopsis

A New Method Of Studying History, Geography, & Chronology by Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy. This excerpt serves as a bibliographic and metadata guide, presenting a new method for examining history, geography, and chronology. It is Part 1 of four, including prefatory material and an extensive catalog of historians and related writers. The work functions as a meta-bibliography that maps historiography and directs readers to authoritative authorities, editions, and available supports across languages and formats. It emphasizes selecting reliable editions, understanding how different authors contribute to the study of history, chronology, and geography, and assessing edition quality and provenance for cataloging and provenance metadata. The volume is organized by subject areas and regions, with sections on prefatory methodology, principal historians, authorities on historiography, chronology, geography, sacred and ecclesiastical history, histories of monastic orders, chivalric orders, and Protestant-Catholic polemics. Its setting is a European, early modern scholarly project, reflecting republications, translations, and the editors who produced them. The tone is editorial and evaluative, highlighting biases and urging cautious reading where reliability is in question.

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