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1．To understand the past you have to be able, as far as possible, to think as the people in the period you are studying thought. The example of what it must have been like to be a peasant in the Middle Ages is used. However, sensibilities change over time and we can1．To understand the past you have to be able, as far as possible, to think as the people in the period you are studying thought. The example of what it must have been like to be a peasant in the Middle Ages is used. However, sensibilities change over time and we can2．The text explains how, in order to understand people in the historical period they are studying, a historian must have the same ability the novelist has to get into the minds of characters. This is due to the fact that the world was different then, and the ways of thinking have changed, for example, between the Middle Ages and the 21st century. He explains this by saying historian3．As a historian, if you really want to understand the sensibilities of those who lived in the past, you must be like a novelist and get into the skins of your characters and think and feel as they do. You are asked to imagine what itX
The speaker says: To
reach some kind of understanding of a period in the past ... requires a
creative act of the imagination ... What must it have been like to be a peasant
under a feudal baron? ... So, you have to imagine the terms under which life
was lived in those days ... Now, of course, every age views the past from its
own present ... which is why each age has to write its history over again. It's
not so much that more facts or evidence come to light - if they do - but that
sensibilities change too.
