The Rhetoric of Historical Writing: Documentary Sources in Histories of Worms, c. 1300
David S. Bachrach
One of the most hotly contested debates concerning medieval historiography concerns question whether authors viewed "what really happened", in a positivist sense, as object their inquiry, or they were concerned with writing past "it should have been". This study examines that relation to two historical narratives composed at city Worms during final decade thirteenth century. The thesis this article is these texts describe it actually happened, and relied on written documents, which considered be reliable, write texts.
Journal of the History of Ideas