mythistoryn.
/mɪθˈhɪst(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌmɪθˈ(h)ɪst(ə)ri/ rare before late 19th cent.
History mixed with myth; a mythologized version of history.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history
ancient history1566
church story1581
archaeology1607
church history1609
local history1615
mythistory1731
human story1753
intellectual history1755
oral history1827
Assyriology1828
world history1833
hierologya1848
meta-history1854
Hibernologya1869
prehistory1871
proto-history1876
prehistorics1879
earth history1880
Sumerology1897
historiometry1909
black history1920
herstory1932
ethnohistory1938
meta-history1946
Annales1952
Hittitology1952
revisionism1965
longue durée1968
Warburgianism1977
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mythistory, an history mingled with false fables and tales.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Myth-history, history interspersed with fable.
1888 Science 11 245/2 In a later period of myth-history, linguistic influence is apparent.
1964 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 25 50 Baudouin saw the development of historical writing in terms of a progression of literary genres: first from ‘mythistory’, or epic poetry, to prose; then, within the sphere of history proper, from simple chronicles to narrative history.
1972 Times 8 June 16/4 The reason for Eton's interest in Jane [Shore] is that, in the barnacle-encrustation of legend and mythistory that has grown up around her in the past 500 years, she is said to have used her influence with Edward to save Eton from destruction.
1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation ix. 352 A museum of Anglo-American mythistory..would take the form of a marble temple, in the austere Palladian style favored by Thomas Jefferson for the style of the young republic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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