The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
$23.09
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2009
Summary
An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world - England in the Middle Ages.
Travel back through time this Christmas on a tour of a completely different world - England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845950996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845950992 |
| Author: | Ian Mortimer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides |
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Critics Review
Superbly lively and filled with telling anecdote. * The Big Issue in the North *
Amazing * Alison Weir *
He has a novelist’s eye for detail, and his portrait of an England in which sheep are the size of dogs, 30-year-old women are regarded as so much “winter forage”, and green vegetables widely held to be poisonous has something of the hallucinatory quality of science-fiction * Daily Telegraph *
[Mortimer] sets out to re-enchant the 14th Century, taking us by the hand through a landscape furnished with jousting knights, revolting peasants and beautiful ladies in wimples. It is Monty Python and the Holy Grail with footnotes, and, my goodness it is fun… The result of this careful blend of scholarship and fancy is a jaunty journey through the 14th Century, one that wriggles with the stuff of everyday life * Guardian *
This is not only an unusual book, but a thoroughly engaging one * Literary Review *
After The Canterbury Tales this has to be the most entertaining book ever written about the middle ages * Guardian *
Addressing the reader directly, his aim, triumphantly achieved, is to engage our sympathies with people whose similarities to us are as fascinating as their lives * Sunday Telegraph *
Entertaining, informative and fun * Daily Express *
Ian Mortimer is taking readers on a sense-smacking tour of the 14th century, which is guaranteed to make us wrinkle our noses in disgust and delight by turns * Daily Mail *
Successfully communicating the extraordinary energy of this vibrant, cathedral-building time * Sunday Herald *
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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