This has probably been asked before in a thread somewhere, but I can't seem to find a straightforward answer.
My fantasy novel is set in an early renaissance 13-14th century-like setting, and my question specifically for my story has to do with a nautical ship's wheel.
From my research, at the earliest estimates that I've found, the ship wheel wasn't invented late 1600 hundreds/early 1700 hundreds--a few hundred years after my story setting.
My question therefore is: is it blasphemy to mix historical techs and have a Galleon ship (a ship that came after the Carrack around the mid 1600s) with a ship wheel in my 13th century fantasy story? If it is, I will have to have a Carrack using a whipstaff instead to remain more historically accurate (which is still not quite 13th century, but closer). What's everyone's thoughts? Note- a whipstaff was how ships were steered before the ship wheel was invented and after a simple tiller was invented.
I can think of other stories where tech and the timeline don't seem to match up perfectly and the novel pulls it off brilliantly, such as the Gentleman Bastard Series, where they seem to be set in a Venetian, 17th century, but there are no guns or cannons. Yet, there is a ton of advanced technology in this world too (such as artificer guilds that build really cool machinery and marvels of the time).
My fantasy novel is set in an early renaissance 13-14th century-like setting, and my question specifically for my story has to do with a nautical ship's wheel.
From my research, at the earliest estimates that I've found, the ship wheel wasn't invented late 1600 hundreds/early 1700 hundreds--a few hundred years after my story setting.
My question therefore is: is it blasphemy to mix historical techs and have a Galleon ship (a ship that came after the Carrack around the mid 1600s) with a ship wheel in my 13th century fantasy story? If it is, I will have to have a Carrack using a whipstaff instead to remain more historically accurate (which is still not quite 13th century, but closer). What's everyone's thoughts? Note- a whipstaff was how ships were steered before the ship wheel was invented and after a simple tiller was invented.
I can think of other stories where tech and the timeline don't seem to match up perfectly and the novel pulls it off brilliantly, such as the Gentleman Bastard Series, where they seem to be set in a Venetian, 17th century, but there are no guns or cannons. Yet, there is a ton of advanced technology in this world too (such as artificer guilds that build really cool machinery and marvels of the time).
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