The author discusses some relevant differences between the scientist and perspectivist narrative in history writing. She argues that although both types are influenced by cultural factors, the latter is more subjective, resulting in the historian’s tendency to cross the fuzzy border that separates fiction from non-fiction. Thus, while the scientist deals with “history as history” (res gestae), the perspectivist professes “history as relation” (and thus acts as scriptor rerum gestarum). The difference in attitude becomes naturally reflected in language, which the author of the paper illustrates with examples from the (perspectivist) narrative in Davies’s history books. The last part of the chapter deals with culture-induced translation problems that have to be faced while rendering Davies’s prose into Polish.