PRACTICE

Narratives are more credible sources than relics.

Sources exist either as _____, what we might call “remains,”

________ are artifacts that have been left by the past.

______ are similarly selective accounts, always highly edited versions of the life being recorded,

_____ can almost never treated as reliable reports about an event

Written sources are usually categorized according to a tripartite scheme: as narrative or ______

The classic diplomatic source is the charter, a “legal instrument,” what Germans called the _____

Sometimes the ________ is little more than the trace of a former settlement, a scar left on a landscape.

If the sources all agree about an event, historians can consider the event proved.

_______ comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence t