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A Little light reading...
Queen Victoria's diaries have been put on line - all 40,000+ pages of them ( ... )Leave a comment ( 10 )
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17c military life
I'm writing in a slightly alternate 17th century setting and find I need details about life in an army (French by preference) in the period 1650-1670. I've done quite a lot of research already, but unfortunately there's a scarcity of good available secondary material that actually looks at the details of daily life (though there's tons that talk ( ... )Leave a comment ( 7 )
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Life in a feudal town
Anyone know any good books or sites for researching life in a town in feudal Europe? My story is fantasy, so it doesn't have to be perfectly historically accurate, but I would like it to have a semblance of feudal Europe. I am specifically focusing on life for the lower classes, though not serfs, people who would live and trade in the town ( ... )Leave a comment ( 37 )
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Job title confusion
I've scoured the archives of this community, and tried Google and Wiki with no luck ( ... )Leave a comment ( 8 )
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Medieval Resource
Great resource for "What did people do: in a Medieval City?" jobs, duties, careers - a really comprehensive list! from jaylake
EDIT: Please see syntinen_laulu's comment below - there is clearly issue with this list, so take it as a starting point and check it with other sources. If you can't use the OED (you need to be subscribed or at a library that is), there are ( ... )Leave a comment ( 22 )
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Everyday Life in a Jewish Ghetto during the Early Modern Period
Setting: a Jewish quarter/ghetto within a larger city somewhere in Eastern Europe during the early modern period. This is taking place in "mythic time" so I'm okay with some anachronisms and fudging if need be, but right now I'm mainly looking towards Prague in the 1700s and 1800s for my source of historical information ( ... )Leave a comment ( 12 )
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How would a French character address Hitler in person in 1942?
It's pretty much all in the title. How would you expect a French citizen (in Nazi German-occupied France) to address Hitler when speaking directly to him in 1942? Oh, and if it makes any difference at all, the character is actually an eighteen-year-old boy, related to some very important French figures, but not anyone of particular consequence ( ... )Leave a comment ( 5 )
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Mode of address for a boyar? (And other protocols?)
Setting is a secondary world, drawing on Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century for its cultural basis. The area the protagonists are in is governed by a boyar, and in an upcoming scene they'll be visiting his residence to have a chat with him ( ... )Leave a comment ( 16 )
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Medieval dream vision poems with female guides
I may have convinced myself there is a dream vision tradition originating in the later Middle Ages where a young girl or a woman functions as the dream guide, along the lines of Pearl by the Sir Gawain poet, or Beatrice in Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso (and perhaps Alceste in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, though I haven't actually read it so I ( ... )Leave a comment ( 18 )
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