History is Necromancy (David Cayley)
Hope in Source
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The Recovering of History
Knowing a certain prospective helps you see your own prospective rights, because you have something to contrast it with. The recovery of history as something other than prologue is indispensable for him to understanding. And heeven, in a wonderful passage, calls it necromancy. At one point, the summoning of the dead. There are clues, something in there that is appealing. For some reason, that kind of sounds like why he was so into history by twelfth century.
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