เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิจัยเอกสารจดหมายเหตุทางประวัติศาสตร์	การวิจารณ์ตำรา
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)	Antiquity; modern systematic method c. 1850s (Lachmann)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century	Classical philologists (Karl Lachmann foremost in systematic method)
ประเภท	Qualitative primary-source research	Humanistic / philological research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853	West, M. L. (1973). Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. Teubner. ISBN: 978-3519074014
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research	lower criticism, editorial criticism, philological criticism, manuscript criticism
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5
สรุป	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.	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.