Edit schmedit.

[erastes]

It's moving along, but gah! the mistakes one finds !!

I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's.  Idiot!

Only if

1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR

2. They were both facing in the same direction.

*kicks self*

I also mention SHRAPNEL.  Yeah. In 1642.  Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.

It's a worry!

Comments

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

do you know the work of Barry Unsworth, he writes using medieval pacing but with modernish words, but his characters use medieval slang, they're not that hard to read either
words change meaning, for example nunnery used to mean brothel now is another word for convent
did you know tolkien invented the word dwarves, the correct plural is dwarrow, it fascinates me, and you can learn so much about something just looking up where the word comes from
that's how geeky i get, I can spot latinate, norman or saxon a mile off, and the odd buggers like paradise which is persian.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

words change meaning, for example nunnery used to mean brothel now is another word for convent

Which changes the whole context of Hamlet telling Ophelia to get herself to a nunnery. There's quite a big difference between "oh, go be a nun" and "oh, go join a whorehouse."

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

he is telling her to get to a brothel
most people often seem a little surprised that he thinks so very little of her
but then again at that period it wasn't unusual for the bishop and abbesses to rent out their nuns like that for extra money
which is probably where the confusion comes from