Comparer des méthodes

	Critique textuelle	Recherche d'archives historiques
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Méthodes de terrain
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	Antiquity; modern systematic method c. 1850s (Lachmann)	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)
Auteur d'origine	Classical philologists (Karl Lachmann foremost in systematic method)	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century
Type	Humanistic / philological research method	Qualitative primary-source research
Source fondatrice	West, M. L. (1973). Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. Teubner. ISBN: 978-3519074014	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853
Alias	lower criticism, editorial criticism, philological criticism, manuscript criticism	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research
Apparentées	5	6
Résumé	Textual criticism is a systematic philological method for identifying, comparing, and evaluating variant readings across multiple manuscript or print witnesses of a text in order to reconstruct the most accurate version of the original — or the author's intended — text. Applied since antiquity to classical, biblical, and literary works, it remains the foundational editorial method in classical studies, biblical scholarship, medieval studies, and critical editing of literary works.	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.