Features of medieval historiography

The generic features of medieval historiography – didactic moralism, a belief in divine providence as the guiding hand of history, a ready acceptance of the miraculous, a focus on warfare, politics, and the Church to the exclusion of almost everything else – have always posed a challenge to historians seeking to write

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.