Already searched : “medieval illness/disease”, “medieval  epidemics”, “epidemics”, etc + the various diseases that presented  themselves during those searches but without much success for my  specific set of requirements. So I turn to you lovely people for help  ...

Setting : Medieval (late 12th century) - Middle east (present day Lebanon) in a ( Read more... )

Hello everyone,

I'm not so much looking for answers to a question here as advice and suggestions (hope that's ok).

My situation is this :

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Part of the plot in my story revolves around the fact that my characters really need to travel to a specific place - but they live in a very snowy, northern climate, and when the story opens winter is already closing in. To make matters worse, there's a mountain range between them and their intended destination, which they can theoretically travel ( Read more... )

What would someone like Al Mualim - yes, the one from Assassin's Creed - eat in the morning? Would it be something like the other Assassins would eat, or would it be something else ( Read more... )

The setting is in Nottingham Castle, England, in 1196 during a siege. A character receives a slash to the side, just below the ribs, with a sword and has a dagger thrust into the back of his shoulder nearly simultaneously. Is it possible to survive an attack like this and if so how would the wounds be treated? What would the damage be ( Read more... )

We'd probably say manslaughter today, as the culprits had actually beat up someone who died afterwards ( Read more... )

I'm writing a Cadfael story, and one of my characters has just born a child some two weeks ago. She doesn't have enough milk to feed the baby, and neither is a suitable wet nurse to find. So, what would she give the baby? Cow milk? Some mashed vegetables ( Read more... )

I'm working on a Dr. Who story, in which the Ninth Doctor and Toshiko (from Torchwood) accidentally end up in 12th century Japan, in the middle of the Battle of Dan-no-ura. I tried to find any detail on the ships the two warring parties might have used in that battle, but to no end. The closest thing Wikipedia came up with were 13th century Chinese ( Read more... )

I'm writing (or attempting to, anyway) a story set in a fantasy world based on Al-Andalus, or Moorish Spain. More accurately, in one of the taifas, or smaller kingdoms, after the Caliphate of Cordoba fell apart, but before the Reconquista really got going (so somewhere between 1000-1300, I'd say). I've tried googling "daily life in Moorish Spain ( Read more... )

When: 1191 ( Read more... )