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Adaptations in hospitaller historiography : an overview
Like all trends of human thought and production, historiography
is subject to adaptations. Historical writing is performed by
human beings living in a particular society, at a certain point in
time. Therefore it is obvious that the historian, like any other
writer, is influenced by the society of which he forms part, by the
environment in which he lives and by the events of his times. He
is also influenced by the output of similar historians living in his
same country and elsewhere. In other words, historiography is
also subject to the trends of the times, and to what the readers
expect, since history books, like all books, are intended to sell,
and make a profit for the publisher. In this paper, the role of official
histories of the Order of the Hospital, commissioned by the
Order itself, shall be examined in order to establish if one can
trace an adaptation in the concept of history writing of the Order.
In this particular case, 'histories' of the Order had to suit the
taste of the Order who paid for this travail in order to boost its
legitimacy in the eyes of the world.peer-reviewe
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