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Books were incredibly expensive, they would be in castles and monasteries, but Joe Shmoe rural priest wouldn't just have Latin and Greek books hanging around his house. That shit had to be hand drawn in scriptoriums and written on sheepskin, even a Latin bible would not have been accessible to your average household outside of the very wealthy or religious institutions.

I'm having feelings about the historical accuracy in the first few chapters here. Joan is being told that she is not allowed to learn how to read due to being a woman and while women at this time, particularly peasants, were not encouraged to learn to read, it was seen as not necessary rather than against God. Her father's violent dogmatic religious perspective feels much more modern. Also, why do they have books?

I am genuinely not sure if I am going to be able to finish this. Is this supposed to be funny? It's just unironic sexism... I am trying to take it as a product of it's time or whatever but.....truly, wtf is this?

oh. my. f***ng. god. this book is completely devastating. and I'm not even half way through.

I don't even care this is almost 800 pages long, I just f*cking love Dan Simmons