Table of Contents

Author's Preface. Book I: Preliminary Studies. 1. The Search for Documents. 2. 'Auxiliary Sciences'. Book II: Analytical Operations. 1. General Conditions of Historical Knowledge. 2. Textual Criticism. 3. Critical Investigation of Authorship. 4. Critical Classification of Sources. 5. Critical Scholarship and Scholars. 6. Interpretative Criticism (Hermeneutic). 7. The Negative Internal Criticism of the Good Faith and Accuracy of Authors. 8. The Determination of Particular Facts. Book III: Synthetic Operations. 1. General Conditions of Historical Construction. 2. The Grouping of Facts. 3. Constructive Reasoning. 4. The Construction of General Formulae. 5. Exposition. Conclusion.

About the Author

CH. V. Langlois, CH. Seignobos