What?

Which are the most important key terms or key concepts related to your subject?

Search for a definition and examples.

Who?

Collect names of important/relevant persons and additional information about them.

When?

Collect information about the time and time-frame of your subject.

Where?

Which are  "the places to be"? For example cities, courts, convents, pubs, churches, universities, etc.

How?

Information about the practical application and use of matters related to yoursubject.

Why?

Go looking for “facts behind the facts”: factors which have influenced the arisal, apparition and eventual disappearance of your subject.

Whereby?

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Wherewith?

Which means/techniques/instruments/… were used related to your subject?

With whom?

Go looking for relevant colleagues, contemporaries, competitors, ennemies, friends, lovers, …

Origin?

When does a subject or a key concept appear for the first time? When is it named or described for the first time?

Related to?

Are there influences or even “cross-fertilizations”? For example from literature, poetry, visual arts, philosophy, theology, psychology, architecture…

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