What do you expect in a historical novel?

>>8296951
A time before political correctness

I would just want it to be well researched so that it could somewhat accurately represent the times, but not so well researched that the author feels the need to put in enormous amounts of obscure shit to show off.

>>8296956

Yeah, there's a fine line between so little it's bland and so much it reads like an annoying history lesson.
Bernard Cromwell is somewhat guilty of the latter, from the little I've read of the Saxon books.

>>8296954

The last thing we need is Aliénor of Aquitaine complaining she is an independent woman and won't agree to a forced marriage against Richard the Lionheart. What era do the evil patriarchs who made her do it live in? Antiquity?!

>>8296966
Yep. I want to see women subordinated to men.

>>8296968

Strangely enough, the period and place in which my own historical fiction novel is set gave a surprising amount of rights to women. She could divorce, inherit her husband's fortune, was expected to avenge her husband or brothers' death if either were killed, could be armed, could fight in the army...

>>8296963
You should read his King Arthur trilogy.

>>8296976
>She could divorce, inherit her husband's fortune, was expected to avenge her husband or brothers' death if either were killed, could be armed, could fight in the army

the cultural marxists were out early

>>8296977

I'm actually writing about King Arthur, so I'd rather not read anyone else's take on it so as not to colour mine.

>>8296984
Not really, it's Christianity that started imposing things like "dressing appropriately", veils and the idea women were possessions. Or that being a virgin mattered.

Not saying Christianity invented those concepts, but it's the Christians who brought them to Celtic Britain.