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TRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND


YEARS
THEME : TO UNDERSTAND WHO IS HISTORIANS,WHAT THEY ARE DOING& WHY THEY ARE DOING.
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIEVAL & MODERN PERIOD HISTORIANS.
Historians and their sources.
 Historians: The persons who studies & write about past.
* Historians are concerned as a researcher of the past.
* Herodotus. – “Father of History”- Greek/ Medieval
historianAND THEIR. SOURCES :
TORIANS.

*12th century Historians- Hemachandra-Indian Jain scholar /poet.


* 21st century Historians – Ram Nath – specialised in Mugal architecture.
WHAT HISTORIANS DO ?
 Role of Historians:
 Historians collect information about past.
 Determining the authenticity of historical
data.
 Sharing / conveying/ publishing
the medieval period data’s.
WHERE MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS COLLECT
INFORMATION ?

SOURCES: Medieval Historians collect information from👇

👈Coins 👈 Architecture

👈 Texts /
👈 Inscriptions
Records
WHY HISTORIANS COLLECT INFORMATION ?

 Reasons for collecting information:


 * To write holy texts,
 * To write chronicles of rulers / letters,etc. Manuscripts
 * To Recollect Judicial records.
 * To know the medieval accounts / taxes
MANUSCRIPTS:

 Manuscripts: A book / documents written by Historians by


hand rather than typing.
 These manuscripts are collected by wealthy
people,rulers,temple authorities and placed in Archive /
Libraries.
ARCHIVE:

 Archive : It is the place where manuscripts are kept.


 Modern Historians collects manuscripts/ information in archive
to make a research about medieval period people.

Archive /
Library 👉
SCRIBE :
 Scribe – A person who serves as a professional copyist.
 One who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of
printing.

Scribe 👉 👉
Copying
manuscripts
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIEVAL & MODERN
HISTORIANS
Collects information from
 Medieval Historians
To write
Chronicles,letters,teaching of Saints, Judicial records, A/c & taxes , etc
written by scribe
Rich People( Buy ) Manuscripts ( Keep) it in
Collects Archive /
 Modern Historians
information from Library
Make many changes
From original
Manuscript
DIFFICULTIES FACED BY SCRIBES IN COPYING
MANUSCRIPTS:

 Difficulties:. No printing press ,so scribes used to write it in


hand.
 Scribe feel difficult to understand the original word.so scribes
changes certain words / meanings according to what they feel.
 Therefore, Original meaning of the content changes from
medieval period

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