The passion for personal glory became the principal motive of those poems which treated of recent or contemporary history.
The treatment of a long series of actions in chronological order is incompatible with artistic effect; the treatment of contemporary history is incompatible with the ideality of imaginative representation.
The example was thus given of a Roman epic based on a legendary foundation, but mainly built out of the materials of contemporary history.
There is, moreover, a strong presumption in favour of a 'combination of a biography with a contemporary history.
Every biography is a necessary part of contemporary history, and the question is simply one of degree.
He is silent about any prophetic call, and preserves an inexplicable reticence about the names of all the great men and notorious events in contemporary history.
Contemporary history is but party-chronicle: the true philosophic history can only be written when distance and elevation give due scope to our vision.
The productions of Hrotsvith in the domain of contemporary history consist of a poem on the emperor Otto the Great, and a history of the monastery of Gandersheim.
Friends have enlarged on their work, contemporary history refers to their existence, and often they have themselves left writings, which give an insight into their lives.
The busiest and poorest in the community may here follow with intelligent interest the great movements of Contemporary History.
His actions form one of the most incredible and, let it be said, contemptible chapters of contemporary history.
From Thucydides we have twenty-four years of contemporary history of his own country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemporary history" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
