I really should throw away everything I thought I’d known about the past

– John West, pp29

and

I breathed slowly, and caught the scent of herbs — mint, sage, maybe rosemary. Weren’t people from the Middle Ages supposed to stink? I thought they bathed, like, once a fortnight or something.

– John West, pp44

The first thing to remember is the title – The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, captured me immediately. The reality is the book’s title is the first sentence of the book.

This idea of misunderstanding the past has appeared a few times. Will Sanderson continue to develop this theme?

I hope so. More to come…

Sanderson, Brandon. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. United States, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC.