... 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 never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). By ... readers in the complications of early-fourteenth-century theological and political controversies and philosophical debates over nominalism. He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges o...

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