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==Definition==
1: The [[fact]], [[quality]], or [[character]] of being situated in [[history]]; esp. historical accuracy or [[authenticity]].
==Description==
'''Historicity''' is a term referring to the historical [[actuality]] of [[persons]] and [[events]], meaning the [[quality]] of being part of history as opposed to being a historical [[myth]] or [[legend]], or the quality of being part of [[record]]ed history, as opposed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory prehistory]. Questions of historicity arise where accounts of [[events]] are [[believed]] by some to be true, but can not be verified either because of a lack of historical [[records]], or because existing historical records have incorporated [[folklore]] as [[fact]].
Issues of historicity particularly apply to the [[factual]] nature of [[events]] reported in partisan or [[poetic]] accounts. For example, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad historicity of the Iliad] is a topic of [[debate]] because later [[archaeological]] finds suggest that the work was based on some true [[event]].
Historicity also arises frequently in vetting [[religious]] claims that depend on the [[truth]] of historical events:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_(Bible_Studies) Historicity (Bible Studies)]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus Historicity of Jesus]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_canonical_Gospels Historicity of the canonical Gospels]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_(Christian_eschatology) Historicism (Christian eschatology)], a specific brand of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism Biblical literalism]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad Historicity of Muhammad]
[[Category: History]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1880]
==Definition==
1: The [[fact]], [[quality]], or [[character]] of being situated in [[history]]; esp. historical accuracy or [[authenticity]].
==Description==
'''Historicity''' is a term referring to the historical [[actuality]] of [[persons]] and [[events]], meaning the [[quality]] of being part of history as opposed to being a historical [[myth]] or [[legend]], or the quality of being part of [[record]]ed history, as opposed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory prehistory]. Questions of historicity arise where accounts of [[events]] are [[believed]] by some to be true, but can not be verified either because of a lack of historical [[records]], or because existing historical records have incorporated [[folklore]] as [[fact]].
Issues of historicity particularly apply to the [[factual]] nature of [[events]] reported in partisan or [[poetic]] accounts. For example, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad historicity of the Iliad] is a topic of [[debate]] because later [[archaeological]] finds suggest that the work was based on some true [[event]].
Historicity also arises frequently in vetting [[religious]] claims that depend on the [[truth]] of historical events:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_(Bible_Studies) Historicity (Bible Studies)]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus Historicity of Jesus]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_canonical_Gospels Historicity of the canonical Gospels]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_(Christian_eschatology) Historicism (Christian eschatology)], a specific brand of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism Biblical literalism]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad Historicity of Muhammad]
[[Category: History]]