Relating to or characteristic of annals or the work of annalists; presented in chronological yearly order.
From 'annalist' plus '-ic,' forming the adjective. Commonly used in historical criticism to describe the style and method of historical writing.
Historians debate whether 'annalistic' writing was boring or brilliant—just facts year by year—but it accidentally preserved information that artistic writers would've skipped!
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