This document discusses the history of historiography and how historians have approached documenting history over different periods. It mentions the classical period, Christian historiography, the Enlightenment era up to historian Leopold Von Ranke and his tradition, Karl Marx and the Annales school, and postmodernism as defining periods that shaped the field of history.
2. The periods of history The birth of historiography and historians of the classical period Christian historiography Enlightenment of the 18 th century to Leopold Von Ranke and the Rankean Tradition From Karl Marx to the Annales school Defining history - Postmodernism