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History
Our oldest historian is the Venerable Bede, who wrote in Latin
an Ecclesiastical History of very great merit (672-735). Of
secular historians, William of Poitiers, who wrote in Latin The
Gests or Deeds of William, Duke of Normandy and King of the English
(1020-1088). His contemporary was Ingulphus, who wrote a history of
Croyland Abbey (1030-1109). The oldest prose work in Early English is
Sir John Mandeville's account of his Eastern travels in 1356.
The Father of History.
Herodotos the Greek historian (B.C. 484-408). So called by Cicero. The Father of Ecclesiastical History. Eusebius of Caesare
(264-340).
Father of French History.
AndréDuchesne (1584-1640). Father of Historic Painting.
Polygnotos of Thao (flourished B.C. 463-435).
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