... location offers extra protection. That type of site, on a cliff or a hill, was considered ideal for a castle.( 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 ... it avoided. Amin Maalouf did not attempt to paint a picture that support a certain vision of history or advances a certain agenda. This is a common theme in modern day work on history and especially historical fiction. The one agenda that Amin Maalouf may have had in m...

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