Ever wonder why we study the past? I mean really, what’s the point? It’s over. Done with. Shouldn’t we just move on? I was going to blog about the Siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, in relation to my new time travel novel, In the… Read More »Why Understanding the Past Matters by N. Gemini Sasson
It is a stereotype that women in the Middle Ages had two career options: mother or holy woman, with prostitute or chattel filling in the gaps between those two. Whether we like it or not, for the most part this stereotype is accurate and the status and role of women in that era… Read More »A Woman Detective in Medieval Wales? by Sarah Woodbury
Wales … snow covered mountains, deep lakes, hundreds of miles of coastline, and a long and brutal history of rebellion and conquest. I love history and reading about history, but real history often ends badly for the heroes. Consequently, when a story involves a main character who dies an unpleasant… Read More »Writing Fantasy into Historical Fiction by Sarah Woodbury
Justice is debated every time the morning newspaper is opened—or flipped on the favored tablet. We each have slightly different interpretations of the meaning. Is the death penalty just or is it only State-approved murder? How should the guilty be punished? Oddly enough, the discussion on justice is rarely concluded… Read More »Justice by Priscilla Royal
The history of Wales predates Roman settlements to a Celtic people who called themselves the Cymry. It was a society as much rooted in warfare as it was in bardic tradition. Although the Welsh as a society were autonomous from England for many centuries, the proximity of the two countries… Read More »Owain Glyndwr and the Welsh War of Independence by N. Gemini Sasson