1. JESUITS IN CHINA
The biographical or semibiographical accounts of knightly deeds in the Crusades gave rise to the critical history of William of Tyre. 7 Contact with Byzantines and Muslims broadened history writing by showing the Westerners other points of view. ... Both the Reformation and the Catholic Reformation furthered historical scholarship, as both sides used the past to support their religious views. ... Voltaire cultivated the wider, universal view of history, stressing its social and moral aspects. ... Other philosophical views were reflected in general theories, some of the later figures being...
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