Pedro de Armadi

Pedro de Armadi
Who's Who of Nouvelle Alexandrie
Full Name	Pedro Enrique de Armadi
Birth Date	25.V.1662 AN
Death Date	15.II.1748 AN
Residence	Parap, Wechua Nation

Pedro Enrique de Armadi, was an Alduria-Wechua and later Nouvelle Alexandrien historian, philosopher, and author. He wrote multiple volumes on the national and regional histories of Alduria, Wechua Nation, and Nouvelle Alexandrie. He is generally regarded as one of the foremost scholars on Alexandrian history, as well as an important developer of historiography. His best known works, A Brief History of the Wechua Nation (1692 AN), and The History of the Federation (1720 AN) are regarded as some of the foremost literature on the early modern history of Nouvelle Alexandrie. He died in 1748 AN from a short sickbed of pancreatic cancer. Aside from his authorship, he is well-known as a professor at the Royal University of Parap between 1700 AN and 1727 AN.

The University renamed its Social Sciences building after him in 1745 AN.

Contributions to Historiography

Armadi is often credited with modernizing historical literature in Wechua and Nouvelle Alexandrie. One of these include his self-named development of the "Comparative Regional Method": systematically comparing different living cultures within a shared analytical framework. This has since been adopted by many historians, especially those studying multiethnic societies.

Aside from that, Armadi incorporated oral history extensively into his historiographic research, treating genealogies and testimony as legitimate primary sources and establishing new protocols and cross-referencing techniques.

Another important development for the popularization of historical literature was Armadi's unique hybrid narrative-analytical writing style. Aside from pure historical fact, Armadi incorporated biographical analysis and literary narration into his works, creating the very first popular historical literature.

Bibliography

• The Fall of the Alexandrian Empire (1685 AN)
• Alduria Before the Federation (1689 AN)
• A Brief History of the Wechua Nation: from Founding to Spring (1692 AN)
• A Study in Early Historiography (1697 AN)
• The Maritime History of Alduria-Wechua (1699 AN)
• The Federalization Experiment: Founding of Alduria-Wechua (1703 AN)
• A History of Lyrica Before the Federation (1709 AN)
• Evidence and Memory: Essays on Sources and Interpretations (1711 AN)
• Alduria and Wechua: A Dual History (1714 AN)
• Foundations of the Comparative Method (1718 AN)
• The History of the Federation (1720 AN)
• A Social History of the Wechua People (1722 AN)
• Caputia, Babkha, Altus and Natopia: Forebearers of the Federation (1725 AN)
• The Federation's Birth: A Documentary History of the Proclamation (1730 AN)
• Lives of the Founders (1736 AN)
• The Memories of Nations: A Guide to Modern Historiography (1740 AN)
• On Truth in History: Ethics, Objectivity, and Interpretation (1743 AN)
• The New Histories: The Federation in Retrospect (1746 AN)