1. JESUITS IN CHINA
There appears early, too, a strain of religious interest in showing the lessons of history, religious and ethical. ... Attempts at broader histories of peoples, such as the history of the Goths by Cassiodorus (preserved only in the compendium of Jordanes) and the history of the Franks by Gregory of Tours, were early and had few successors. ... Among the better medieval histories was Bede's Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a branch of historiography that has been of great importance. ... But by far the greatest medieval Arabic historian was Ibn Khaldun, who created an early versio...
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