On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Neil Rest wrote:
> Has your friend read _The Domesday Book_? I'd be curious to know her
> opinion of the depiction of Plague England.
>
>
> Neil Rest
> NeilRest@tezcat.com
>
I won't even _start_ on the _historical_ problems (I haven't time: I am
supposed to be preparing for a seminar on the Black Death this very
moment!)... But Connie Willis could at least have got her geography of
medieval Oxford right...
Edward James
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Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, READING RG6 6AA, UK
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Editor, FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
Director of Studies, MA in Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media
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