
Very interesting site....excellent photos and blogs.....
Thank you. Merovingian plotbunnies is so what I need.
Yeah- this is one of the things that really irritates me in historical romances. The author could at least use names authentic to the period. Maybe in this case she thought that Deuteria and Fredegund sounded less "romantic" than Deirdre and FeliceOh my. Deirdre is bad enough, but Felice? What sort of name is that? Surely not Merovingian.
What's a plotbunny? I want one, nightmares or not.plotbunny nightmares
Just recently read Elisabeth McNeill's novel, "Flodden Field" which is the story of James IV's disastrous campaign against England during the reign of Henry VIII. (Sorry, those Henries just keep sneaking in!) The Scottish king managed to get himself and half the Scottish nobility killed instead of gaining the military glory he longed for. James IV was an interesting person- physically imposing, handsome, fiercely intelligent and cultured- a Renaissance monarch, but he had this blind need to prove himself in battle. It destroyed him, and pretty much Scotland as well.-- all the James' of Scotland seem to be pretty much ignored in favour of all the Henry's of England.