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Meanings of historical criticism in English

Russian
высшая критика
Portuguese
alta crítica
Spanish
metodo critico-historico
Catalan
alta crítica

Branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text.

высшая критика
Usage of historical criticism in English
1
The principle of verisimilitude and of probability dominates in fact all historical criticism.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
2
The deadly enemy of good, sound history is scientific historical criticism.
Towards the Great Peace
3
By this term I do not mean conjectural and literary- historical criticism.
We Philologists / Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume ...
4
How ridiculous the cool superciliousness with which modern historical criticism 'pooh-poohs' that interpretation!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
5
My faith has been destroyed by historical criticism, not by scholasticism nor by philosophy.
Recollections of My Youth
6
We have no difficulty in agreeing that historical criticism of literature is a kind apart.
Aspects of Literature
7
This also is to be observed in historical criticism.
Essays in Literature and History
8
A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.
The Life of Jesus
9
The spirit of historical criticism in the present age is on the whole a charitable spirit.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
10
For in the days before historical criticism was invented, the history of Rome was very luxuriant.
Humanly Speaking
11
This is what used to be described in the phraseology of historical criticism as epic breadth.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
12
It was a wilful fabrication, made in the infancy of archaeology when historical criticism was non-existent.
South Wind
13
But you have not a proof which can stand the test of psychological or historical criticism.
Recollections of My Youth
14
To enter into any serious historical criticism of these stories would be to break a butterfly.
George Washington, Volume I
15
And such stuff we are expected to receive as historical criticism, and the philosophy of history!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
16
He received an excellent education which served to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism.
The Satyricon — Complete