I'm not sure if this author doesn't realize there's a difference between the ~900s and the 1600s

[conuly]

or if she just doesn't care, but it's really annoying. (It doesn't help that her knowledge of the 1600s appears to be more based on pop culture than research. I'm still reading mostly to see if these people have invented baths yet.)

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Comments

[pauamma]

700 years. That's longer than any country that still exists has been around without substantial territorial changes as far as I know. (Unless you consider the UK is a group of countries and not a federal-if-you-squint country.) The cognitive dissonance, it burns.

[thekumquat]

Even if you do, Ireland...

I'm no expert on that time period but I imagine I'd notice blatant errors - potatoes and tobacco and printing in the 900s, maybe?

What's the story on baths?

[pauamma]

*thinks* Oh, right, the occupation of Ireland was already happening in the Elizabethan period, so the late 1500s.

[lilysea]

Oh for fuck's sake

Printing presses and Protestants, for starters - these are found in the 1600s but not the 900s...

[conuly]

Candles, chimneys, eating forks, spinning wheels, the broadshare plow (in Europe), potatoes (in Afroeurasia)....

[pauamma]

Or, come to think of it, the Great Schism. When was that, mid-11th century? *checks* Yep, JY 1054.