Methods and Tools
- Prosopography – a methodological tool for the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period
- Historical revisionism – traditionally used in a completely neutral sense to describe the work or ideas of a historian who has revised a previously accepted view of a particular topic
- Historiography – the study of historical methodology
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