Date: 2020-04-18 08:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] carmarthen
Wow, they just flatout asked that question!

A Spartan mother sounds...exhausting, although I suppose the mother issues are less surprising.

I don’t know – I think I can’t accept a world which is quite so absolutely impregnated with religion; the terrific hold that the Church had in every facet of life. I can’t understand it. In the period of Knight’s Fee, it hadn’t really got this terrific hold that it got later. After the late Norman times, I just don’t understand the people.

This both doesn't surprise me and also makes me wonder how she (more or less) pulled off Blood and Sand, although I don't really remember how she handled the main character's conversion. But I feel that that's also a pretty deeply religion-steeped setting. And I wouldn't call the Renaissance more religion-steeped than the English Civil War period...(man, I would have LOVED to see her take on the 16th century, sigh).

One of these days I have to actually read Flowers for Adonis.
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