He uses the reader’s experience as one of the means to solve the murder and find out the guilty. Eco is one of those authors, who usually focus on the reader’s participation in the story.

Of course, one of the simplest and quickest ways for the authorities to calm down the rebels is to proclaim the existence of heresy and provide inquisition with powers to control the society. This is why such awareness may become one of the major reasons for different rebellions and even revolutions, which will certainly destroy the power of the leading authority. The point is that the truth that is dictated by the leading authority can be considerably different from the real truth, however, not every person can find enough powers to prove it. In the story The Name of the Rose, the Benedictine monks get to know that knowledge can be rather a dangerous thing. These issues are represented by many other writers, like Ronald Surtz, and can be found in various sources, like The Fourth Lateran Council such wide usage and explanation of these ideas proves their urgency and necessity. With the help of this book, he gained recognition as a good scholar and historian, who raised such important for the church issues as heresy, inquisition, and interrogation.

This novel remains a critical success and one of the bestsellers created by Eco. He introduces a story of Adso of Melk, an elderly Benedictine monk and the narrator, and William of Baskerville, a Franciscan friar, the main protagonist of the story. The narrator, Umberto Eco himself, finds a book in 1968, where the events of the 14 th century take place.

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