Every age has an orthodoxy and a credo and a priesthood, he says. Historians have to both reflect t and react against it, isn't it? "We maybe we're overshaped by what survives," writes the historian.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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