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Who among these historians is considered to be a practitioner of historicist criticism like Taine?
Jacob Burckhardt
Thomas Carlyle
Edward Gibbon
Francis Parkman
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Jacob Burckhardt is considered to be a practitioner of historicist criticism, a type of historiography that emphasizes the importance of context and culture in understanding historical events. Burckhardt was a Swiss historian who wrote extensively on the Renaissance, and his work has been influential in the development of historicist criticism.
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