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Historical Context

val·id [ val -id] adjective 1. sound; just; well-founded: a valid reason. 2. possessing accepted truth; authoritative. 3 . legally sound, effective, or binding; having legal force: a valid contract. .

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Historical Context

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  1. val·id[val-id] adjective1. sound; just; well-founded: a valid reason. 2. possessing accepted truth; authoritative.3. legally sound, effective, or binding; having legal force: a valid contract.

  2. val·id[val-id] adjective1. sound; just; well-founded: a valid reason. 2. possessing accepted truth; authoritative.3. legally sound, effective, or binding; having legal force: a valid contract.

  3. Historical Context • the political, social, cultural, and economic setting for a particular idea or event • In order to understand history, you must understand it in its appropriate context.

  4. Historical Context • Some historians believe that one cannot apply modern ways of thinking (morals, strategies, norms of human behavior)to historical settings because they are likely very different. • Mehmet’s world was very different from ours… • … so deciding whether his arguments were valid or not requires us to apply the norms of his world not our own.

  5. Were all of Mehmet’s arguments valid? If we consider historical context, we must decide what justice, accepted truth, and legality meant to Mehmet and leaders like him in his time, the 15th C. val·id[val-id] adjective1. sound; just; well-founded: a valid reason. 2. possessing accepted truth; authoritative.3. legally sound, effective, or binding; having legal force: a valid contract.

  6. Historical Context • Considering historical context becomes even messier when historians discuss events from the past that include actions that modern people would consider IMMORAL. • Is conquest IMMORAL? • Is what Mehmet’s soldiers did to the Byzantines after the city was conquered IMMORAL?

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