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List of historians

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This is a list of historians, but only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included and names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.[1]

Antiquity

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Greco-Roman world

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Classical period

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Hellenistic period

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Roman Empire

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China

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Middle Ages

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Byzantine sphere

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Latin sphere

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Early Middle Ages

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  • Gildas (500–570), On the Ruin of Britain

High Middle Ages

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10th century

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11th century

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12th century

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13th century

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Late Middle Ages

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Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance"

Islamic world

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East Asia

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India

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Renaissance to early modern

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Renaissance Europe

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Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"

Early modern period

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Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815

Middle East and Islamic Empires

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East Asia

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Modern historians

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Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770

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Historians born in the 19th century

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  • Pavao Anđelić (1920–1985) Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian
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See also

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General
Lists of historians

References

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  1. ^ For a longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians": Kelly Boyd, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii.
  2. ^ [Krónika az magyaroknak viselt dolgairól – Chronicle about deeds of Hungarians. http://mek.oszk.hu/06400/06417/html/heltaiga0070001.html.]
  3. ^ Olah Miklós: Hungaria (in Hungarian)
  4. ^ Nicolai IsthuanfI Pannoni Historiarum de rebus Vngaricis libri 34, Antoni Hierati, 1622 [1].
  5. ^ Matthiaie Belii: De Vetere Litteratura Hunno-Scythica Exarcitatio. [2].
  6. ^ Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus no civilis
  7. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 9780805772302.
  8. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.). American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v. OCLC 464953146.

Bibliography

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  • The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford UP, 1995), 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online
    • Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. A history of historical writing (1962)
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. History, its rise and development: a survey of the progress of historical writing from its origins to the present day (1922), online
  • Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)
  • Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415285575; 39 chapters by experts
  • Boia, Lucian, ed. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (Greenwood, 1991), 868 pp.
  • Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis 2 vol. ISBN 9781884964336. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); detailed coverage of historians and major themes
  • Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
  • Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
  • Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9
  • Gooch, G. P. History and historians in the nineteenth century (1913), online
  • Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005)
  • Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. A Companion to Western Historical Thought Blackwell 2006. 520pp; ISBN 978-1-4051-4961-7
  • Momigliano, Arnaldo. The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-07283-8
  • Rahman, M. M. ed. Encyclopaedia of Historiography (2006), Excerpt and text search
  • E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004)
  • Thompson, James, and Bernard J. Holm. A History of Historical Writing: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century (2nd ed. 1967), 678 pp.; A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676 pp.; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900
  • Woolf, D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vols. 1998), excerpt and text search
  • Woolf, Daniel, et al. The Oxford History of Historical Writing (5 vol 2011–12), covers all major historians since ancient times to present; see vol 1
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  • "Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research