Background Research

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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, a...