Dear Mr. Cornwell, As to your response from February 8. YES!!! A lively debate with an informed and intelligent person! Certainly scapular is related to the shoulder blades, but mostly because the most common form of a scapular is two rectangles joined by what are essentially straps worn over the shoulders…usually a garment intended to remind the wearer of humility…and you are certainly correct that bishops were sometimes monks. As to the bonnets…I would be most interested to know your source…it has been several years since I earned my masters and, since I no longer teach costume history, I have not acquired any new research materials in the last few years. The Cunningtons mention a bonnet as an alternative term for what was more commonly called a cap (lady’s) in the 13th century, and men’s caps in the Renaissance were also sometimes called bonnets…perhaps what we have is a terminology issue. However, I have not come across anything from this early time that was structured like a bonnet (though I agree that something like a coif is so easy to make that one would naturally think it would have been worn). I must admit that I read your books far more for the wonderful stories and escape into other times than for accuracy, but you are usually so precise that I am surprised when I notice a discrepancy (and it throws me out of the story for a moment when an image seems somehow off). Paige Goodman