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summer 1190 – Richard’s fleet
Prior to his departure for the Holy Land, Richard the Lionheart gathered more than 100 ships, each one able to carry 40 knights, men-at-arms and their horses, and 40 foot soldiers. There were galleys, busses (aka cargo ships), and esneccas² of all shapes and sizes. The ships departed from ports in what we now call…
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real things, happening to real people…
The photo above in no way implies I’m reading ancient texts. On the other hand, I do consult translations of works from the end of the 12th century! Those works make the history so real. It’s not just the boring dates, name, and places we had to memorize in school. It’s real things, happening to…
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embellishing facts to make fiction… april – june 1190
“King Richard was at Tours with an elite force of knights. The city and its suburbs were crammed with such an enormous number of people that the crowds were colliding with each other because the roads and streets were too narrow for many thousands… When the king set out from Tours with his comrades the…
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talking about the book… The Greatest Knight
The Greatest Knightby Elizabeth Chadwick A tidbit about the authorElizabeth participates in the medieval reenactment group Regia Anglorum, who explore the life and times of people of Britain from the Viking Days through the times of Richard the Lionheart. The scene that made you laugh out loud or cheerThe young Prince Henry ‘borrows’ William Marshal’s…
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Thursday’s Walk on the blog side…
This must be the week for posts on historical fiction research & writing! I was working on one of my own for next week when all these great links appeared in my feed reader: Shannon Lawrence talks about doing it right. She mentions an author who hadn’t done her research and another who IS doing…