Tacitus followed more or less the pattern of Thucydides but with a brooding moral interest in the decay of Roman society. 6 Medieval Historiography The concern with separating fact from fiction and legend often disappeared in medieval historiography. Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Among the better medieval histories was Bede's Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a branch of historiography that has been of great importance. ... Medieval Islamic historians such as al-Tabari and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often employing sophi...

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