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- Fri August 8th, 2014, 7:13 am
- Forum: Later Medieval
- Topic: Hundred Years war from the French perspective?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4718
In a Dark Wood Wondering by Halle Haasse is a really good book - although the focus is more on the central character, Charles d'Orleans and their life rather than the Hundred Years War - the war is more just part of his story, but its more of a character driven book I think. Another series are the b...
- Tue June 3rd, 2014, 11:02 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What Are You Reading? November 2011
- Replies: 130
- Views: 24832
- Tue June 3rd, 2014, 11:01 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: The Most Annoying thing today
- Replies: 1404
- Views: 93167
- Tue June 3rd, 2014, 11:00 am
- Forum: Books by Historical Fiction Online Members
- Topic: Guidelines and Additions
- Replies: 80
- Views: 32092
- Mon June 2nd, 2014, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Ask Your Fellow Readers
- Topic: Books on Joan of Kent
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3047
I have a feeling that she features as a secondary character in The People's Queen by Vanora Bennett - she's portrayed in a pretty bad light - fat and and not a very nice person, I seem to remember. Would be interested to hear of any other portrayals too as she'll probably feature in a book I'm writi...
- Mon June 2nd, 2014, 1:29 pm
- Forum: Books by Historical Fiction Online Members
- Topic: Guidelines and Additions
- Replies: 80
- Views: 32092
- Wed May 28th, 2014, 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: armoured combat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 774
Had a chance to watch the video now - remarkable - the armour actually does look like it's fairly light - although I noticed that the instructor mentioned that if you become unbalanced it felt heavy - so probably part of the technique is to unbalance an opponent and then take advantage. Also you're ...
- Wed May 14th, 2014, 10:55 am
- Forum: Historical Fantasy
- Topic: Raymond E Feist
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3823
- Wed May 14th, 2014, 10:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: armoured combat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 774
I think the subscribe option is the best one - not ideal though. Thx. I watched the video - although I'm not sure if its the right one - neither of the combatants are wearing armour? One thing that struck me is that during the sparring both combatants move forward and back quite a lot - this would b...
- Wed May 14th, 2014, 10:05 am
- Forum: Historical Fantasy
- Topic: Speculative Fiction
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5467
I think one of my favourite alternate history books is Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - aliens land in a medieval German village - not as wacky as it might sound and very well done. Unfortunately Michael Flynn doesn't seem to have written anything else historical, but this is a very well researched what...