History Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, History Information and Meaning
See also ANTIQUITY; PAST
- annalist
- one who chronicles yearly events; a writer of annals.
- chronography
- Obsolete, the recording or study of past events.
- cliometrics
- the application of mathematics, especially statistics, to the study of history. —cliometrician, n.
- cyclicism
- the belief that history repeats itself, as suggested in the writings of Arnold Toynbee. Also cyclicity. —cyclic, adj.
- genealogy
- 1. a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, or group.
- 2. the study of family ancestries or histories.
- 3. descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage. —genealogist, n. —genealogie, genealogical, adj.
- heroology
- a work on heroes and their history. —heroologist, n. —heroological, adj.
- historicism
- 1. a theory that history is determined by immutable laws.
- 2. a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that all historians should study a period on its own merits.
- 3. a search for the laws of historical evolution.
- 4. a profound or an excessive respect for historical institutions, as traditions or laws. Also historism. —historicist, n., adj.
- historiography
- 1. the body of literature concerned with historical matters.
- 2. the methods of historical research and presentation.
- 3. an official history. —historiographer, n. —historiographic, historiographical, adj.
- historiology
- the study or knowledge of history.
- historism
- historicism.
- medievalist
- 1. an expert in medieval history, literature, art, architecture, etc.
- 2. a person devoted to the art, culture, or spirit of the Middle Ages.
- monism
- the theory that there is only one causal factor in history, as intellect or nature. —monist, n. —monistic, adj.
- Orientalist
- a specialist in Oriental history, art, literature, etc.
- prosopography
- 1. a biographical sketch containing a description of a person’s appearance, qualities, and history.
- 2. a collection of such sketches. — prosopographer, n. See also FACIAL FEATURES.
- protohistory
- the earliest period of history, before the time when records were kept. —protohistorical, adj.
- revisionism
- a movement to reexamine historical information in the light of current knowledge. —revisionist, n., adj.