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conulynorthern Europe (including the British Isles) did not have eating forks until the 17th century at the earliest. The eating fork wasn't commonplace in Italy until the 14th century, and it took a while to spread out from there.
I don't care how refined and polite your character is, if your setting predates the arrival of forks in her region she washes her hands and eats with her fingers the way God intended. You can show her good manners by demonstrating that she will "let no morsel from her lippës fall, Nor wet her fingers in her saucë deep". Probably she doesn't double dip either.
I don't care how refined and polite your character is, if your setting predates the arrival of forks in her region she washes her hands and eats with her fingers the way God intended. You can show her good manners by demonstrating that she will "let no morsel from her lippës fall, Nor wet her fingers in her saucë deep". Probably she doesn't double dip either.
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Date: 2020-09-09 10:49 pm (UTC)I am a lot more tolerant of anachronism if they are 1. Making it clear they are not being accurate (which they did), and 2. The tone feels correct, if that makes sense. (I'd argue they got the feel right).
It's the ones where they are takking themselves very seriously and pretending to be historical but are not even close (I am glaring SO HARD at Braveheart) that sen me right up a tree.