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anilEhilated posted:It's a good read as long as you remember that his main goal was to make a story of pure virtuous Christians and their morally corrupt oppressors to prop up Polish national pride. That makes his treatment of the historic aspects is a bit selective - don't get me wrong, he clearly did a lot of research, but there was a conscious decision to not show stuff like, say, violence between different Christian sects. Yeah, I'm seeing that, what with (I think) are supposed to be references to the Alexemenos graffiti, and the like. But would you say me picking up on an anti-Semitic reading of Chilon Chilonedes is accurate, or just me being very cynical?
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Samovar posted:Yeah, I'm seeing that, what with (I think) are supposed to be references to the Alexemenos graffiti, and the like. But would you say me picking up on an anti-Semitic reading of Chilon Chilonedes is accurate, or just me being very cynical? anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Mar 16, 2024 |
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I am a big fan of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series: the titular lawyer finds himself dragged into cases of murder, espionage and skulduggery that always end up involving contentious issues of politics and religion in the court of Henry VII. Great writing, great characters, and a great combination of my two favourite genres: historical fiction and murder mystery.
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Onionetta posted:I am a big fan of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series: the titular lawyer finds himself dragged into cases of murder, espionage and skulduggery that always end up involving contentious issues of politics and religion in the court of Henry VII. Great writing, great characters, and a great combination of my two favourite genres: historical fiction and murder mystery. There are an insane number of these set in the Roman empire. (I imagine there are some from every historical era.) So many, in fact, that I can't even remember which one I read. I don't like detective stories so I didn't get super far into it though. But if you like historical fiction and murder mysteries, you could read nothing but those for the rest of your life.
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Roma Sub Rosa comes to mind especially!
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Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers is the only Old Testament historical (?) fiction I know of. Is there anything else?
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