Historicist

(noun)

A scholar that utilizes Aztec accounts of Toltec culture to piece together the history of the Toltec people.

Related Terms

  • tlantean figures
  • Atlantean figures
  • Quetzalcoatl

Examples of Historicist in the following topics:

  • The Toltecs

    • The historicists believe that there is truth within the stories told by the Aztecs.
    • Désiré Charnay, the first archaeologist to work at Tula, Hidalgo, defended the historicist views based on his impression of the Toltec capital.
    • Some 20th-century historicist scholars, such as David Carrasco, Miguel León Portilla, Nigel Davies and H.
    • Historicists supportive of the ethnic group theory also argue that much of central Mexico was possibly dominated by a "Toltec empire" between the 10th and 12th centuries CE.
  • Academic Architecture

    • Though the Beaux-Arts style embodies an approach to a regenerated spirit within the grand traditions rather than a set of motifs, principal characteristics of Beaux-Arts architecture included: rusticated and raised first stories, a hierarchy of spaces (from "noble spaces"—grand entrances and staircases— to utilitarian ones) arched windows, arched and pedimented doors, classical details, references to a synthesis of historicist styles, and tendency to eclecticism.
  • National Pride

    • After the 1870s, Romantic nationalism became a very familiar movement in the arts that allowed for a form of reinterpretation of the past, without being considered merely historicist.
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  • World History
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