Medieval Horizons
Why the Middle Ages Matter
$24.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2024
Summary
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer’s bestselling The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England.
We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science and technological innovation, and that it was the inventions of recent centuries which created the modern world.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529920802 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529920809 |
| Author: | Ian Mortimer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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An account of a profoundly misunderstood period, which shows that the Middle Ages were not marked by violence and superstition. Instead, huge steps in social and economic progress were made, and the foundations of the modern world were laid * The Economist *This enlightening account shows there was more to the period than plague, superstition and violence * Economist, Books of the Year *
About The Author
Ian Mortimer
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller’s Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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