... common to the Story school of thought. As we move out of the medieval period and into the renowned Renaissance, we begin to see another major movement in the objective of written history. Here it can be seen that writers of history separate themselves from religious influence and begin a new territory of history writing: the Political History. In these first political writings we see major artists appear, such as Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas ... Hobbes. These two authors move away from writing for the church and direct their writing towards more secular aims. Machiavelli himself write...

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