Metahistory

1. Philosophy of history (e.g. Aristotle).

2. Universal or synoptic history (Toynbee, Spengler, et al).

3. Generalization of the phenomena of history (e.g. Hegel).

4. Epistemological approach to historiography in which the historians' procedures are examined.

5. History which also deals with mythology and with myth and legend making and also with the subjective development of man, i.e. his cognitive moral, aesthetic and behavioural history.