When I was writing my PhD thesis on authenticity in historical fiction (Authenticity and alterity: Evoking the fourteenth century in fiction), I had planned to include a section on the role of “fantasy” in the depiction of the Middle Ages, but I ran out of space (and time!) and had to leave it out. Nonetheless, …
Month: February 2018
The Domesday Village – East Meon
For today’s blog, I am reposting a piece I wrote for the History Girls blog back in November, continuing my series of posts about the area of Hampshire where my “Meonbridge Chronicles” are set, the Meon Valley. In my series of posts on some of the communities of the valley of the River Meon, I …