The Time Traveller's Guide To Medieval England :  Visitors to the Fourteenth Century - Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide To Medieval England

Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

Paperback | 1 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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?

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
Industry Reviews
Superbly lively and filled with telling anecdote. -- Toby Clements * 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 *

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