Time Travellers Gde To Medieval England

Mortimer, Ian

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Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking the reader to the Middle Ages, and showing everything from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.

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Publish Date: 01/10/2009

Description

Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to 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?

In The Time Traveller’s Guide Ian Mortimer’s radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived, whether that’s the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative, as entertaining as it is startling.

‘Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time’ The Times

‘After
The Canterbury Tales this has to be the most entertaining book ever written about the middle ages’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 268 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 22 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

344

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.03 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K