The benefit of hindsight

According to the Book of Genesis, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom, Amiens, Bibliothèque Municipale, 108 (Spain, 1197 AD)

History is always about looking back, sitting down and trying to understand the past. Preserving a clear vision in the present is often risky, the maelstrom of contradicting interpretations, t…