The Time Traveller´s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer
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?
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
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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