Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose is marvelous)
Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War is wonderful)
and Gary Jennings (Spangle! is awesome, so is Aztec)
if it is for school, then you would do better to post your questions in the Homework Help section, under Education and Reference
the Tudor Stuart babies were breastfed by wetnurses and then fed porridge after that, until they had enough teeth to eat meat