Catherine is reading an "intellectual" history.
Intellectual history alludes to the historiography of thoughts and masterminds. This history can't be considered without the information of the people who made, examined, expounded on, and in different ways were worried about thoughts. Scholarly history as polished by students of history is parallel to the historical backdrop of theory as done by savants, and is more similar to the historical backdrop of thoughts. Its focal commence is that thoughts don't create in seclusion from the general population who make and utilize them, and that one must investigation thoughts not as dynamic recommendations but rather regarding the way of life, lives, and verifiable settings that delivered them.