Oh, I adore The Winter Prince and the four books that follow it. (Telemakos!)
But I would call Wein's setting clearly fifth-century, even though she's filling in a lot more of the details in Aksum; she isn't wobbling back-and-forth between the subroman and high medieval eras, which many people do, but (I think) Stewart is able to pull off by leaning heavily on the fantasy elements. (Then again, if I had encountered Stewart for the first time as a historically-schooled adult, I might think otherwise.)
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Date: 2011-08-15 17:04 (UTC)But I would call Wein's setting clearly fifth-century, even though she's filling in a lot more of the details in Aksum; she isn't wobbling back-and-forth between the subroman and high medieval eras, which many people do, but (I think) Stewart is able to pull off by leaning heavily on the fantasy elements. (Then again, if I had encountered Stewart for the first time as a historically-schooled adult, I might think otherwise.)