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The time traveller's guide to medieval England

A handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century

By Ian Mortimer

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The past is a foreign country; they did things differently there...

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 re you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague?

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The past is a foreign country; they did things differently there...

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 re you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague?

In The Time Traveller's Guide... Ian Mortimer's radical 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.

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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

    After The Canterbury Tales this has to be the most entertaining book ever written about the middle ages. Ask me anything you like about 14th-century fashion, etiquette, architecture, armies, law or humour, but henceforth my abiding memory of medieval ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Review: The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer

    Tom Holland reads a handbook for visitors to the 14th Century To historians of the pre-modern past, the limited and patchy nature of the sources with which they are obliged to work can be a cause of frustration. Ian Mortimer, a specialist in late-med ... (read full critics)

    telegraph.co.uk published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Others 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1845950992
  • ISBN-13: 9781845950996
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Pub date: Oct 01, 2009
  • Also available as: eBook
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