It has become something of a commonplace to comment that “history” must be a strange discipline, since the same word is used to denominate both the process of enquiry and the object of that enquiry itself. Unfortunately, the observation usually stops there; “unfortunately”, because what is at stake here is no mere linguistic curiosity but a reflection of a real methodological muddle, of which the “fact or fiction” debate can be seen as but one reflection.

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