Fête galante. Only (17)80s kids remember this.
Рекомендую интересную статью Иэна Мортимера "Почему историки должны писать художественную литературу".
Автор -- создатель книги "Справочник туриста по Елизаветинской Англии", делится своими переживаниями и мнением об истории, академических историках, литературных историках и многом другом.
That is why historians should write historical fiction. It teaches you how little you really know about the minutiae of the past, and destroys professional complacency. It humbles even the most experienced researcher. It demands that you think deeply about human character, and how it is formed, and how people integrate. But most of all it shows you that there is a different sort of truth beyond the measurements of facts and dates: truths about human nature which are timeless, or, at least, very slow-moving. And it leaves you thinking that these truths, although they are unproveable, are probably the most important historical conclusions of all, for they reflect what we are, and what we can be, both as individuals and as a society.
Автор -- создатель книги "Справочник туриста по Елизаветинской Англии", делится своими переживаниями и мнением об истории, академических историках, литературных историках и многом другом.
That is why historians should write historical fiction. It teaches you how little you really know about the minutiae of the past, and destroys professional complacency. It humbles even the most experienced researcher. It demands that you think deeply about human character, and how it is formed, and how people integrate. But most of all it shows you that there is a different sort of truth beyond the measurements of facts and dates: truths about human nature which are timeless, or, at least, very slow-moving. And it leaves you thinking that these truths, although they are unproveable, are probably the most important historical conclusions of all, for they reflect what we are, and what we can be, both as individuals and as a society.