As a matter of fact, the style received harsh criticism, and was seen by some to be superficial and of poor taste, especially when compared to neoclassicism ; despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities, and since the mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians.

A series of wars with Britain during the 18th century and early to mid-19th century, which France lost, ended its colonial ambitions in these places, and with it what some historians term the " first " French colonial empire.

In addition to the anti-Mary Todd bias of many historians engendered by William Herndon ’ s ( Lincoln's law partner and early biographer ) personal hatred of Mrs. Lincoln, Baker discounts the criticism of the marriage as both a basic misunderstanding of the changing nature of marriage and courtship in the mid-19th Century and attempts to judge the Lincoln marriage by modern standards.

English historians preferred to use Roman terminology ( Edward Gibbon used it in a particularly belittling manner ), while French historians preferred to call it Greek .< ref > Edward Gibbon " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ", Alexandre Rambeau, " L ' empire Grecque au X < sup > e </ sup > siecle "</ ref > The term reappeared in the mid-19th century and has since dominated completely in historiography, even in Greece, despite objections from Constantine Paparregopoulos, Gibbon's influential Greek counterpart, that the empire should be called Greek.

No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.

The Annales School () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century.

Subsequent later historians accepted Myers ' speculation as fact, creating a narrative of events in 5th century Britain with various degrees of elaborate detail.

Parshva, the earliest Jain Tirthankara, whom modern Western historians consider to be a historical figure, lived in about the 8th century BCE.

The short-lived 11th dynasty of the Kings of Babylon ( 6th century BC ) is conventionally known to historians as the Chaldean Dynasty, although only the first four rulers of this dynasty were known to be Chaldeans, and the last ruler, Nabonidus ( and his son and regent Belshazzar ) was known to be from Assyria.

In the beginning of Christendom, early Christianity was a religion spread in the Greek / Roman world and beyond as a 1st century Jewish sect, which historians refer to as Jewish Christianity.

This battle is of interest because it is surprising that an area so far east should still be in Briton hands this late: there is ample archaeological evidence of early Saxon and Anglian presence in the Midlands, and historians generally have interpreted Gildas's De Excidio as implying that the Britons had lost control of this area by the mid-sixth century.

Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of conceptions of evolution and race which had serious negative political and social consequences, many 19th century historians pursued what they intended as reasonably objective research projects in the history of their own and other regions either to end by themselves using the results to support nationalistic goals or to see their work used that way by others.

By the mid-20th century, it was increasingly clear to historians that the notion of " changeless China " was untenable.

As a consequence, the anti-Domitianic tradition was already well established by the end of the 2nd century, and by the 3rd century, even expanded upon by early Church historians, who identified Domitian as an early persecutor of Christians.

Although contemporary historians vilified Domitian after his death, his administration provided the foundation for the Principate of the peaceful 2nd century.

Serving as a bridge to 19th century life on Hachijō-jima, Okuyama is regarded as a wellspring of information by ethnomusicologists and historians alike.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

In the 19th and early 20th century, these images were used by many Danish historians, with a good flair of nationalism, trying to date the origins of the flag to 1219.

Some historians have argued that mid-4th century Roman authorities, in an attempt to enforce the Nicene decision on Easter, attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing.

Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images.

The general view of historians and critics is that the story of the Golem of Prague was a German literary invention of the early 19th century.

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

In Ireland, genealogical records were recorded by professional families of senchaidh ( historians ) until as late as the mid-17th century, when Gaelic civilization died out.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

" Some historians have put forward the idea that more recently the United States has become the home of conspiracy theories because so many high-level prominent conspiracies have been undertaken and uncovered since the 1960s.

Modern historians have put forward numerous theories in an attempt to explain these actions.

The ideas of imperialism put forward by historians John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson during the 19th century.

Although many are undated, art historians have generally been able to put them in chronological order.

Contemporary evidence is contradictory, with several dates having been put forward by various historians.

Marxist Friedrich Engels wrote: " I have learned more Balzac than from all the professional historians, economists and statisticians put together.

The cause behind the soured relations is not fully known, though historian Marjorie Chibnall stated that, " historians have tended to put the blame on Matilda [...] This is a hasty judgement based on two or three hostile English chroniclers ; such evidence as there is suggests Geoffrey was at least as much to blame ".

This analysis has been questioned by some historians, most notably Dr. Kua Kia Soong, the principal of New Era College, who has put forward the controversial argument that the May 13 Incident was a pre-meditated attempt by sections of the ruling Malay elite to incite racial hostility in preparation for a coup.

Different historians put Kamakura's beginning at a different point in time within a range that goes from the establishment of Yoritomo's first military government in Kamakura ( 1180 ) to his elevation to the rank of in 1192.

Two days after the departure of the Simons the prisoner is said by the Restoration historians to have been put in a dark room which was barricaded like the cage of a wild animal.

Modern historians put the total at about 100, 000 legionaries on each side.

Evidently, by her time ( about 300 AD according to Christian hagiography, though some historians put the story much later ) the name no longer had any specific ethnic or pejorative connotations.

The Bostic Lincoln Center points to historians and Lincoln biographers that put Lincoln's birth 5 years earlier than is commonly accepted.

Taylor controversially argued that the Iron Chancellor had unified Germany more by accident than by design ; a theory that contradicted theories put forward by historians, Sybel, Ranke and Treitchke in the latter years of the 19th century, and again by other historians more recently.

More recent historians put Fox in the context of the 18th century, and emphasized the brilliance of his battles with Pitt.

Some historians put the French as more numerous and others the allies.

Though the group had a number of members, Harry " Pittsburgh Phil " Strauss was the most prolific killer, committing over 100 murders ( some historians put the number as high as 500 ).

Some historians, including David Bates, have argued that St-Calais was the driving force behind the organization of the entire Domesday survey, although other candidates have been put forward, including Samson, Bishop of Worcester, before he became bishop.

As the American historians Will and Ariel Durant put it, Charles II was " short, lame, epileptic, senile, and completely bald before 35, he was always on the verge of death, but repeatedly baffled Christendom by continuing to live.

Modern historians, such as Patrick Kinross, put the date slightly later, around 1365, under Orhan's son, Murad I, the first sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

" Milton Gray believes that Schlesinger put Clampett in charge of the black and white cartoon division in order to save it, and many historians have singled out a scene in Porky's Duck Hunt in which Daffy exits as a defining Clampett moment.

He lived thenceforward in the convent of the Celestines in Paris, but nevertheless continued to exert an influence on public affairs, and to his close alliance with Louis of Orleans may be put down the calumnies with which the Burgundian historians covered his name.