Homespun
Literally ‘home-spun’ cloth usually referring to peasant class.
Hose
See chausses.
Jupon
A tight-fitting garment, usually padded, and worn over armour from c1350 – 1410. Often used to display the wearer’s heraldic device or badge.
Kirtle
A woman’s gown.
Lamphreys
An eel-like fish; a delicacy.
Lapis Lazuli
Precious stone of from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations known as ‘stone from Heaven’ or ‘sky stone’ for its rich blue colour.
Lauds
A service of morning prayer traditionally said or chanted at daybreak.
Liripipe
The long tail of fabric hanging from a hood, wrapped scarf-like around the neck or wound around the head. Eventually this hood and wound liripipe became a fashion in itself called the ‘chaperon.’
Loveage
A plant of the parsley family.
Lozenges
A diamond pattern, often used in heraldic devices.
Lungwort
A bristly plant of the borage family, typically having white-spotted leaves and pink flowers that turn blue as they age.
Madiran
A Gascon wine from the Béarn district imported to King Edward III’s table
Mandrake
A Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with white or purple flowers and yellow berries. It has a forked root that supposedly resembles the human form and was formerly used in medicine and magic.
Mail
Chain mail -interlinked rings of metal ‘knitted’ together to form a protective covering. Sometimes used as a slang term for armour in general.
Marlyon
In the sport of ‘Hawking’, a marlyon was a bird for the rank of a lady.
Matins
The first of seven canonical bells that indicated the first or dawn prayer.
Mummer
A silent or mime performer.
Nones
The fifth of seven canonical bells that indicate afternoon prayer.
Palliasse (or pallet)
Straw-filled mattress or small makeshift bed.
Pattens
A wooden overshoe worn to protect the hose/chausses.
Peytral
Horse armour designed to protect the horse’s chest.
Perry
A drink made from fermented pears.
Pile
Heraldic term – also known as a charge for a ‘V’ shape.
Plague
Deadly disease which ravaged the Middle Ages – also known as ‘The Pestilence’.
Poleyns
Armour pieces that cover the kneecaps.
Prime
The second of seven canonical bells that indicated morning prayer.
Quintain/s
A target (usually a shield) mounted on a moveable crossbar used in the medieval sport of ‘tilting’ (jousting). The sport of tilting at a quintain.
Retainer
Person/s attached to a noble household or owing it service.
Rouncey
An ordinary, all-purpose horse.
Sacret
In the sport of ‘Hawking’, a sacret is the bird for the rank of a knight. Comes from central Europe.
Seneschal
The steward or major-domo of a medieval great house.
Sext
The fourth of the seven canonical bells that indicated noon prayer.
Shaffron
Protective covering/armour for a horse’s head.
Simples
Herbs used in healing.
Solar
A living or sitting room in an upper storey.
Surcote/Surcotte
Female – a full-length sleeveless outer gown with wide armhole openings worn over a chemise or gown. Male – a mid-calf length tunic, with slits front and back, sleeved or sleeveless. Worn by knights over their armour. The different spellings are to represent the Anglo French/French languages in use at the time.
Tablier
Game board.
Terce
The third of seven canonical bells that indicated mid-morning prayer.
Thurible
A metal censer suspended by chains as used by the clergy in religious ceremonies. Incense is burned within the thurible.
Treadmill
A large mill-type wheel used to operate a crane for lifting stone and operated by peasants walking within the wheel.
Tumbler
An acrobat who tumbles.
Umble
The numbles (or noumbles, nomblys, noubles) was the name given to the heart, liver, entrails etc. of animals, especially of deer – what we now call offal or lights. The word became ‘umble’ from which came ‘umble pie’ the pie made from the lesser cuts.
Vespers
The sixth of seven canonical hours that indicated late afternoon prayer.
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Catherine A Wilson
‘My grandmother was a wonderful storyteller and I count myself fortunate to have been able to spend time with her and my great uncles and aunts, who loved nothing more than a good pot of tea with added lashings of gossip. It is their legacy that fuelled my genealogical addiction as I strove to identify fact from fiction and then record the information for posterity. From this sprouted my love of history, the urge to research and write and, eventually, to develop my own stories.
‘At the suggestion of Anna Jacobs, another highly successful and talented Australian novelist, I joined Romance Writers Australia. One keystroke error placed me on a chat loop where I met my namesake, Cathy T. After making a crass remark concerning my rather plain name, our friendship was born. We began to regularly email one another, offering words of encouragement (the publishing world is a tough place for the uninitiated – believe me), when Cathy T came upon the idea to create a novel along the lines of our real-time friendship. Hence, Lions and Lilies was born.’
Catherine was born in London, England, but immigrated to Australia in 1972 to reside in and around the leafy suburbs of Eastwood, Epping and Dundas. Without a particular path in mind she simply took the first job she was offered, which happened to be the position of Layout Artist for a well-known map publisher, but changed course and selected a career in nursing. She later enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, before resigning to a quiet life at home.
She lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, with her husband and two beautiful children, several Jack Russells, a large flock of flighty chickens, goldfish and budgies. When not writing (which is not often) she likes to garden, read books, shop, read books, drink copious cups of strong coffee with friends and read plenty of books.
Catherine T. Wilson
‘My first lasting love? Hmm, I was fourteen when a friend handed me a book about a heroine in France during the 15th Century, and I fell in love with everything medieval. But maybe it didn’t start there. Come to think of it, when I was younger I devoured Alan Garner’s tales of sleeping knights in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, progressing to King Arthur and Ivanhoe, but somehow that French heroine always stayed with me.’
Catherine was born in Burnley, England, but moved to Australia when she was eleven months old. She grew up in Elizabeth, South Australia, relocating to Queensland when she was fourteen. She worked in communications, before finally deciding to fulfil her dream as a writer. The raw draft of her first novel, a Viking romance, won an encouragement award of $1,000 from six hundred entries, in a popular women’s magazine competition. A member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she visited Europe in 2006 to witness the annual re-enactment of ʻThe Battle of Agincourt, and then travelled extensively throughout Britain and France, researching material for Lions and Lilies.
She lives on a small bushland property, on a mountain range west of Brisbane, with her husband and two beautiful children, three dogs, a small herd of cattle, a flock of cockatoos, and one horse. And yes, you only have to walk into her house to see her first love. Pictures of maidens on horseback grace the walls, and every corner and mantel is filled with knights and battle axes, the bookshelves overflowing with tales of chivalry.
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