Talk:Historical fantasy

More subgenres
There are lots more subgenres listed at Literary genre. We should expand this article to cover them.

-- TimNelson (talk) 11:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Sword-and-sandal
Quoting the lead paragraph, It is used as an umbrella term for the sword and sorcery genre and sometimes, if fantasy is involved, the sword-and-sandal genre too.

But sword-and-sandal here at en.wikipedia is a genre that "dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965", with a mid-1980s revival. --P64 (talk) 19:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)


 * P.S. Sword-and-sandal is currently claimed only by the two wikiprojects Film (Italian cinema task force) and Classical Greece and Rome. --P64 (talk) 20:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

The random list of "examples"

 * Assaph Mehr's Murder In Absentia: Rome-based fantasy world
 * C. J. Cherryh's The Russian Stories: Medieval Kievan Rus' and The Paladin: China of the Tang Dynasty
 * C.C. Finlay's Traitor to the Crown: American Revolution
 * Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire novels: various eras
 * David Gemmel's Lion of Macedon: Ancient Greece
 * Delia Sherman's The Porcelain Dove: Revolutionary France
 * Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete: Ancient Greece, and Soldier of Sidon: Ancient Egypt
 * Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana: Renaissance Italy, A Song for Arbonne: Medieval Occitania, The Lions of Al-Rassan: Moorish Spain, The Sarantine Mosaic: Byzantine Greece, and The Last Light of the Sun: Viking England
 * Harry Turtledove's Thessalonica: (Byzantine Greece) and War Between the Provinces: (American Civil War)
 * Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke: about a warrior prince in 14th-century Japan, who travels to the West in order to remove a demon curse from him by a Forest Spirit.
 * Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically Phantom Blood: Victorian England, Battle Tendency: World War II, and Steel Ball Run: Wild West America.
 * Hiroshi Aramata's Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital Saga): different novels in different time periods of Japan spanning from Bakumatsu to Showa Era
 * James Gawley is a classical scholar who writes classical fantasy based on the civil wars of the late Roman Republic.
 * Juliet Marillier's The Sevenwaters Trilogy: 9th-century Ireland
 * Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels: Medieval British Isles (specifically, Wales)
 * Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori: feudal Japan
 * Lynne Ellison's The Green Bronze Mirror: a teenage girl goes back in time to the Roman Empire and meets a Roman witch and a magic-wielding druid.
 * Naomi Novik's Temeraire series: England during the Napoleonic Wars
 * Paula Volsky's Illusion: French Revolution
 * Peter Morwood's Prince Ivan trilogy: Russia just before and after the coming of the Golden Horde
 * Philip Tolhurst's George and the Dragon mixes Arthurian legend, dragons and World War II.
 * Poul Anderson has written many novels mixing northern mythology with the historic events of the Viking age: The Broken Sword, Hrolf Kraki's Saga, War of the Gods, and Mother of Kings. More historical with only slight fantasy elements is The Last Viking series.
 * Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age includes fantasy versions of many historical countries and peoples.
 * Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha is mostly set in Sengoku Era Japan.
 * S. J. A. Turney's Interregnum and Ironroot: Late Imperial Rome
 * Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories: Napoleonic England
 * Tim Powers's The Drawing of the Dark: Renaissance Europe, On Stranger Tides: early 19th century Caribbean, and The Stress of Her Regard: early 19th century Italy

Also the latter list of works featuring Japan might me think a section about Japan might be in order, however it is called, as it's very common in Japanese pop culture (ninja/samurai vs demons and such). SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 17:07, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Eurocentric
The top definition is Eurocentric and could use improvement with verified sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KimYunmi (talk • contribs) 18:08, 14 November 2019 (UTC)