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2 days agoThe power of story to find history's lost voices - starting with Pompeii
Critical fabulation uses evidence-based speculation to reconstruct plausible historical possibilities where records are missing.
For the modern scholar, Gómez's treatise offers a similarly rich array of information and insights. It provides an eyewitness account of a major environmental disaster affecting one of the most developed urban landscapes in Europe and shows how contemporaries analyzed the causes and consequences of natural disasters. It also offers a rich and varied example of how contemporary scholars could mobilize their written sources; exercise skills in reading and historical interpretation honed by their studies in law, medicine, and the classics;