This has been bothering me but fiercely, and I hope someone here can help. About two months ago, I was researching medieval Spain under the Moors for an alternate history story idea, and somehow I managed to leap from something involving the brilliant muslim scholars (perhaps of Cordoba? I dunno) of the day to a group of people that my notes are ( Read more... )

So I've spent about half of my day today wandering through the internet in search of an answer for this question and have succeeded only in confusing myself further. I need suggestions of traditional Spanish foods that would be served as snack items, or, that a child might pilfer from the kitchen if he got a little hungry. By traditional, I mean ( Read more... )

I'm at my wits' end and hoping that someone can help me here. I'm looking for a source that deals with court customs of the Spanish Bourbons. I vaguely remember reading that the court migrated between three principal palaces at different times of the year but I can't seem to find anything about that (including which palaces they were) and every ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm doing a big project for a historical fiction class, and I'm having trouble finding a few things I need to write a convincing story ( Read more... )

Writing my story right now, and have a few details I'd like to flesh out ( Read more... )

Arising out of my previous post I have a very specific query ( Read more... )

Could anyone hook me up with an online map of France and Spain, ca. 1630, with names of provinces and major towns? I've been Googling for half an hour but all I get is old collectors' maps for sale, which tend not to be in a big enough magnification that one can make out the text.