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The Time Traveller´s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer
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Description for The Time Traveller´s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Paperback. Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture. Num Pages: 368 pages, col. Illustrations, col. maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845950996
SKU
9781845950996
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Ref
99-1
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Time Traveller´s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more