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HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2003

Eric Fernie
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Abstract

The term ‘history’ is confusingly ambiguous, notleast in being identified both as the study of the whole of the past and only thatpart of the past accessible through the written record. This has an effect on thosehistorical disciplines such as architectural history in which the study of the materialevidence is inseparable from that of the documents. The paper examines how the use oftexts in the study of objects can both casually mislead and powerfully explain, andequally how analyses of objects can both obscure and illuminate the textual record.Examples discussed indicate the value of stylistic analysis in the study of areas asdifferent as African sculpture and the effects of the Norman Conquest.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 13 , December 2003 , pp. 199 - 206
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society2003

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