Background Research
On Saturday I talked about an eye-opening fact I’d learned from research into the Burgundian knights, undertaken as background for The Gathering Of The Lost.
It got me thinking about some of the research I did for Daughter Of Blood, including:
- siege warfare generally, and also
- famous sieges, which morphed into
- battle injuries and siege-associated illnesses and their treatment from Renaissance through to World War 2, with some side reading on
- diseases and amputations generally, and medical progress through the same period
The siege and warfare reading also encompassed delving back into material on armor and weapons, including warhorse armor and weapons, that I’d acquired for The Gathering Of The Lost.
As mentioned on Saturday, all this research turned up quite a few eye-opening, not to mention eye-watering, facts—most just as interesting, but nowhere near as much fun, as Saturday’s one about the Burgundian knights.
Speaking of Saturday and the Burgundian knights post, Mary Victoria commented with a related link to an awesome art-of-horsemanship site: well worth checking out.
And as threatened, fun or not, I’m probably going to share some of those other facts with you, so ‘watch this space.’