LESSON I

HISTORY AND
HISTORIOGRAPHY: MEANING
AND RELEVANCE
 MEANING AND
IMPORTANCE OF
HISTORY
 SOCRATES
Argued the importance of
coming up with terms
before engaging in a
discourse
 Gottschalk(1969)
Etymologically, taken from
the Greek word iotopia
(utopia)“to learn)
 BARNES(1963)
Concerned with the study of
the human past
 SHAFFLER(1974)
- It deals with the past events
- The records of past events
such as chronicle, annals and
official records
- Academic discipline
 ZEUS SALAZAR(2000)
“mga pangyayari na may
saysay para sa grupo ng mga
taong sinasaysayan nito
 Importance of HISTORY
“Pag-aaral ng nakaraan, upang
maintindihan ang kasalukuyan
at para mapaghandaan ang
hinaharap”
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF
WRITING, paved way to the
study of History, ended the Pre
historic Era and started Historic
Era
 BRANCHES OF HISTORY
- General: political, economic,
diplomatic and military
- Economic: thoughts and systems
- Cultural: local, ethnic, social and
myth
 HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Is the art of writing
- Historia-past and
graphein to write
 PHILIPPINE
HISTORIOGRAPHY
- New Historicism
- Interpretation of facts
from all perspective
ZEUS SALAZAR
PANTAYONG
PANANAW
DEVELOPMENT OF
PHILIPPINE
HISTORIOGRAPHY
DEVELOPMENT OF
PHILIPPINE
HISTORIOGRAPHY
DURING
SPANISH
PERIOD
AGUSTINIAN
- FRAY JUAN DE GRIVALJA, Cronica dela
Order de N.P.S Agustin en las provincias
dela Nueva Espana
- FRAY CASIMIRO DIAZ, Filipino uprising
in the 17 and 18 centuries
th th

- FRAY JOAQUIN MARTINEZ DE ZUNIGA,

Historia de las Islas Filipinas
DOMINICAN
- FR. DIEGO DE ADVANTE, Historia de la Provincial
del Santo Rosario
- FR. BALTAZAR DE SANTA CRUZ, Bintalongan
Revolt in Pangasinan
- FR. VICENTE SALAZAR AND FR. DIEGO
COLLANTES, Vivid account of the Dominican
mission in Batanes
- FR. JUAN FERRANDO, who worked on the
history of the Dominican Order in the
Philippines
ST. FRANCIS
- FRAY JUAN DE LA PLASENCIA AND FRAY
FRANCISCO DE SANTA INES,
indispensable knowledge regarding the
cultures of early Filipinos. Los
Casturibres de los Tagalogs, showcased
the customary laws of the pre-Spanish.
First civil code of the Philippines
JESUITS
- FR. PEDRO CHIRINO, distinguished historian. Relacion
de las Islas Filipinas, narrative of the life of the
Filipinos prior to the colonization.
- FR. FRANCISCO COLLIN, wrote on the Jesuits Mission
- FR. PEDRO MURILLO Y VELARDE, accounts of the
history of the Philippine mission, conquest of
Mindanao and the inclusion of a map of the
archipelago
- FR. JUAN DELGADO, political ecclesiastical, economic,
social, and cultural accounts of the country
RECOLLECT
- FRAY JUAN DE LA CONCEPCION,
valuable information that can be used
to understand the cultures of the
Spanish Philippines
 SECULAR
HISTORIANS,
SPANISH OFFICIALS
- DR. ANTONIO DE MORGA, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas.
Information of the 16th century Philippines
- CAPT. MIGUEL DE LOARCA, Relacion de las Islas Filipinas.
Highlighted the material culture of the Early Filipinos which
according to him was on a very high degree of advancement
- THOMAS DE COMYN, Estado de las Islas Filipinas en 1810.
Description of the colonial economy after the opening of
Manila to international trade
- PAUL DE LA GOROMIERE, wrote his impressions of the
country
- JOSE MONTERO Y VIDAL, Historia General de Filipinas Desde
Descubriemento Hastra Nuestros Diaz. Good account of the
Spanish Philippines
SECULAR HISTORIANS,
FOREIGN RESIDENTS
- DR. ANTONIO DE MORGA, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas.
Information of the 16th century Philippines
- CAPT. MIGUEL DE LOARCA, Relacion de las Islas Filipinas.
Higlighted the material culture of the Early Filipinos which
according to him was on a very high degree of advancement
- THOMAS DE COMYN, Estado de las Islas Filipinas en 1810.
Description of the colonial economy after the opening of
Manila to international trade
- PAUL DE LA GOROMIERE, wrote his impressions of the
country
- JOSE MONTERO Y VIDAL, Historia General de Filipinas Desde
Descubriemento Hastra Nuestors Diaz. Good account of the
Spanish Philippines
 FILIPINO HISTORINS
DURING THE SPANISH
PHILIPPINES
 THE OPENING OF MANILA TO THE
INTERNATIONAL TRADE HAS
BROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
TO THE COUNTRY AND THIS
DEVELOPMENT PAVED THE WAY FOR
THE BIRTH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS,
ILUSTRADOS
LA SOLIDARIDAD
- JOSE RIZAL, The Philippines a century
hence
- MARCELO H. DEL PILAR, Dasalan at
Tocsohan
- GRACIANO LOPEZ JAENA, Fray Botod
- Pedro Paterno, ninay
FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARIES
- ANDRES BONIFACIO, Ang Dapat
Mabatid ng mga Tagalog and Pag-Ibig
sa Tinubuang Lupa
- EMILIO JACINTO
- PIO VALENZUELA
- APOLINARION MABINI
- ARTEMIO RICARTE
 THE WRITINGS OF
HISTORY DURING THE
AMERICAN PERIOD
- PEDRO DE TAVERA, Bibliotica
Filipina
- EPIFANIO DE LOS SANTOS,
critic and biographer of heroes
like Bonifacio, Del Pilar and
Aguinaldo
American Historian
- EMMA HELEN BLAIR and James Alexander
Robertson, The Philippine Islands:1493-1898
- FRED ATKINSON, The Philippine Islands 1903
- JAMES LE ROY, Philippine Past and Present
- GEORGE MALCOM, The Commonwealth of
the Philippines
- JOSEPH HAYDEN, The Philippines: A Study in
National; Development
HISTORICAL WRITINGS
DURING THE THIRD
REPUBLIC
- LEOPOLD VON RANKE, No Documents, No History
- GREGORIO ZAIDE, FR. HORACIO DE LA COSTA and FR.
JOSE ARCILLA, written history books from a clerical
point of view
- TEODORO AGONCILLO, revolutionized the writing of
Philippine History from a Filipino standpoint. Revolt
of the Masses, The Story of Bonifacio and the
Katipunan
- RENATO CONSTANTINO, place the masses at the
center in his treatment of History. The Philippines: A
Past Revisited
- WILLIAM HENRY SCOTT, History
of the Inarticulate and Cracks in
the Parchment Curtain
- DR. LANDA JOCANO, The
Philippines Pre-History
- ILETO, Pasyon and Revolution
Activity
Give the summary of the following readings:
1. The Philippines a Century Hence
• Matrix of the past, present and the future of the Philippines as
stated by Rizal in his essay
• Matrix of the past and the present and the future of the
Philippines reckoning from 1989 to 2089
• Cite three predictions presented by Rizal in his essay and prove
that they came true
2. Dasalan and Tocsohan, explain why Del Pilar resorted to this kind of
tirade against the friars?
3. Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa, what feeling did the poem evoke in you?