... 's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have ... .( Eco, 1983) Sometimes castles were built on a cliffside because of the psychological as well as the physical effect of impregnability.( Eco, 1983) Adso notes his impression that the castle merged with the rock in such a way that "the cliff seemed to extend, reaching up toward the hea...

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