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his·tor·i·cize

(hĭ-stôr′ĭ-sīz′, -stŏr′-)
v. his·tor·i·cized, his·tor·i·ciz·ing, his·tor·i·ciz·es
v.tr.
To make or make appear historical.
v.intr.
To use historical details or materials.

his·tor′i·ci·za′tion (-sĭ-zā′shən) n.
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historicize

(hɪˈstɒrɪˌsaɪz) or

historicise

vb
to represent (events) in a historic context
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his•tor•i•cize

(hɪˈstɔr əˌsaɪz, -ˈstɒr-)

v.t. -cized, -ciz•ing.
to narrate as history; render historical.
[1840–50]
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The book strives to underscore critical connections between multiple dimensions of Turner's legacy (as scholar, activist, institution-builder, teacher, and mentor), while also aiming to contribute to the growing historicized literature on the Black Studies movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
With the prompt of Rirkrit Tiravamja's activities since the 1990s and the rise of participation as the ur-form of art experience, these earlier experiments are being historicized anew.
The other important contribution of this volume is to argue that the idea of family needs to be historicized and understood within an embedded set of local practices.
In following the work of feminist political theorists and cultural sociologists, she also examines the cultural, material, and social power of historicized visions of the female as 'domestic servant', as daughter of the nation state, and as 'deviant non-citizen' as they are reflected in the contemporary working lives of women teacher educators.
Real time information can be combined with historicized information, and then distributed.
True to his stated method, Ziolkowski's chapter on Philosophy shows how its faculty at the University of Berlin is historicized through the contributions of one important scholar: Hegel.
"Bad" apocalyptic, on the other hand, has been literalized, and symbols have been historicized. For instance, the sun falling and moon turning to blood cease to be emotive warnings and become events awaited in outer history.
We see their own particular perspectives, historicized and contextualized through quotes from the local press of the time.
Either a specific text is "history remembered," meaning the events recounted actually happened and were recorded accurately, or the text is "prophecy historicized," signifying a fictional story created by those seeking to portray the actual events as fulfillment of prophecy.

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