Talk:Sister Fidelma mysteries

message: These are French words for "monk" and "nun", respectively. Why are they being used in English here?--91.148.159.4 (talk) 19:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well in that case, the terms should be explained, not just adopted without comment. Otherwise, it's quite mystifying for the reader. I suppose one reason for this choice of words is that it was not impossible for those very early "monks/nuns" to marry, and that this seems incompatible with our current concepts of a monk and a nun. But any explanation would need to be sourced. The question should be researched by those, who, like you, are interested in the series and involved with the article. --91.148.159.4 (talk) 21:10, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  They weren't actually monks or nuns: those names come from a later time and a different concept of religious affiliations. "Religious brother" (or sister) would be a better term if an unwieldy one. --NellieBlyMobile (talk) 23:55, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

text: "Monk" and "nun" are universally used to refer to members of religious communities from the second century onward, and do not necessarily imply a particular "concept of religious affiliation".  I have made changes accordingly.  Deipnosophista (talk) 15:11, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In colloquial language, yes. However, technically a Cistercian sister is a nun, while a Mary-Ward-sister is not; and to make matters even more intricate, I think that the Poor Clares are nuns although Franciscans certainly are not monks (the term "friar" specifically includes the meaning "but not monk").--2001:A61:260C:C01:F57C:63C4:CE72:D657 (talk) 12:07, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religieux, religieuse? 

message: Would any Wikipedians object to renaming this article Sister Fidelma mysteries and slightly refocusing the lead section on the series of books itself rather than this character in particular? I also think a great deal of the "Biography" section should be removed. Hoppingalong (talk) 03:16, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's strange that we have the two biographies and not an article on the series itself. I think a retooling to a page on the series is in order. Jarkeld (talk) 11:01, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When I started this article more than 8 years ago, Wikipedia was a different place. Yes, go ahead, and make an article about the series, merging the pertaining articles. Lectonar (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I did my best to start the merge. I have moved Sister Fidelma and this talk page to Sister Fidelma mysteries and the corresponding talk page. I edited the lede to make it about the series, not just the character. Then I pasted the material that had been at Brother Eadulf‎ into its own section in the series article, editing it slightly to make sense as part of a larger aritcle. I think the regular editing process can take it from here so far as what is here now goes, but are there other articles out there that should be merged and redirected here? Hoppingalong (talk) 04:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repurpose to focus on the series 

message: In section 1.2 Brother Eadulf, I have amended the wikilink of "The Yellow Plague", which was piped to Yellow fever.
It seems unlikely that Tremaine's reference to a 7th-century plague in England intended that disease: rather it surely refers to the "Yellow plague of Rhôs" aka the Plague of 664 (the chronology matches as nearly as I can tell). This was likely† a recurrence of the Plague of Justinian of 541–549 caused by Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague) which in later outbreaks was called The Black Death.
:(† though Smallpox has also been considered a possibility.)
I have therefore re-piped the link to Plague of 664. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.135.95 (talk) 01:28, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Yellow Plague