INTRO TO HISTORIOGRAPHYThe Beginnings of Historical Consciousness

WHERE ARE THE ORIGINS?

Origins of Western Consciousness Jews and Early Christians Sense of

Meaning on Past Greeks Critical Eye Earliest Humans

EARLIEST HUMANS

No Awareness Barriers to Memory? Cyclical Organize the

Unfamiliar or Scary Myths, Legends &

Fables

MOSES

ANCIENT PEOPLES

Most Ancient Group left no records

Many did Hittites Sumerians Egyptians Assyrians

These Records Are Not Histories

JEWS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL

Importance of History

Confirmed Relationship w/ God

Grand Drama Commemoration of

Specific Events Old Testament Clouded by

Conviction of Faith

GREEKS

History- Implication of Truth?

Historia Major Contributors of

Historical Thought Two Major Historians

Herodotus ThucydidesHomer

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Historical Consciousness Developed With Church

St. Paul St. Peter Constantine

Council of Nicaea

EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

ROME

Justification of Empire

Livy Polybus Julius Cesar Tacitus

Germania Power and

corruption

MODERN AGE

Teleology The word "teleological" is derived from the

Greek word telos, meaning "end" or "purpose".

Teleology is the supposition that there is purpose or directive principle in the works and processes of nature.

Purpose of History Throughout Middle Ages

BRINGING MAN BACK INTO THE STORY Nicolo Machiavelli

The Prince Francesco Guiccardini

History of Italy

MACHIAVELLI

HUMANISM

Petrarch Martin Luther

Sola Vida

Age of Discovery

COLUMBUS

17TH 18TH CENTURIES

Humanist tendencies Continue Exceptions-William Branford’s Of Plymouth

Landing

Voltaire Enlightenment History Should Serve a Practical Purpose Reason and Credibility Could Show Truth

EDWARD GIBBON

Still amature Learned Languages Systematic Decline and Fall of Roman Empire Prose