Auxiliary (orancillary)sciences of history are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and usehistorical sources and are seen as auxiliary forhistorical research.[1][page needed] Many of these areas of study, classification and analysis were originally developed between the 16th and 19th centuries by antiquaries, and would then have been regarded as falling under the broad heading ofantiquarianism.[2] "History" was at that time regarded as a largely literary skill. However, with the spread of the principles ofempirical source-based history championed by theGöttingen school of history in the late 18th century[3] and later byLeopold von Ranke from the mid-19th century onwards, they have been increasingly regarded as falling within the skill-set of the trainedhistorian.[4][5]
Auxiliary sciences of history include, but are not limited to:[1][6]: 1
Several of these are disciplines or sub-disciplines of majorsocial sciences, especially:
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