Peter Frankopan: ‘I’m a historian, not a prophet’

It is gratifying to see how young researchers like Professor Peters decided to listen to that silent intuition, which once meditated by his own professional practice as a historian, gives off such illuminating flashes when they dare to connect blind, forgotten or neglected points of the human odyssey. There is no doubt that access to sources of information and material infrastructure conditions for research are fundamental, but also, in the case of those of us who come from parts of the world less favorable to supporting their researchers, we are still capable of recognizing the effort of historians, in various corners of the planet, who have managed to preserve that flame of curiosity and intellectual honesty, which distinguishes their academic work.