This article intends to analyze old and modern opinions on History, although it presents issues concerning the definition of History as a literary genre as well as a discipline field. Reviewing ideas and History genres that emerged along the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the analysis focuses on the speculation on ways through which History was transformed into a keen instrument, sometimes of deconstruction, sometimes of legitimating of principles of the sovereign State amid power games in the Ancient Regime.
History Genres; Historical Thought; Political Power