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"As the sun crests, scarlet banners appear above the fields of maize where the road leaves the woods" (p. 99)

So far this book has featured tomatoes, broccoli, AND maize, all of which were NOT grown in the Low Countries until the 15th/16th centuries

I just think if you're gonna describe agrarian life in the middle ages you should prob know that the columbian exchange had NOT yet happened in 1298

Good so far but there's a line mentioning Aleys's family plot growing broccoli and tomatoes which drove me CRAZY!! Tomatoes didn't come to Europe until the 16th century! Broccoli didn't leave Italy till then either! How hard is it to just google "what did they grow in the Low Countries in the 1200s"? Leeks, motherfucker, leeks!!

TINY detail but research IS important in hist. fiction and i'm Mad abt the tomatoes lol