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Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2012

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

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What everyday life was really like in Shakespeare's England. The rule of the Virgin Queen, the works of Shakespeare, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and voyages of exploration have given the Elizabethan period its golden glow. Ian Mortimer asks what life actually felt like beneath it. Walk into London in the 1590s and practical questions arrive quickly. Where can you stay? What should you wear? How do you travel? What will you eat? What happens if you become ill, break the law or practise the wrong religion? Using contemporary accounts, household records, travel writing, legal evidence and printed manuals, Mortimer reconstructs a young, crowded and sharply hierarchical society. Population growth, poverty, religious persecution, famine, disease and violence sit beside glorious architecture, global curiosity, theatre and entertainment and some of the finest writing in the English language. This is history experienced through food, clothing, housing, medicine and religion, revealing a society both startlingly unfamiliar and recognisably on the road towards the modern world. ‘A fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly’ Independent ‘Vivid trip back to the 16th century…highly entertaining book’ Guardian
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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 by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

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"As Mortimer puts it, "sometimes the past will inspire you, sometimes it will make you weep". What it won't do, thanks to this enthralling book, is leave you unmoved" -- Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday "With Shakespeare on hand to give us extra insight into how Elizabethans saw themselves (and what they - often to our eyes inexplicably - found funny), and a society playing out its growing sense of self-awareness as it tiptoes to a modern age, the stage is set for a fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly" -- Rebecca Armstrong Independent "Mortimer brings the same depth and flair to the age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen. From dental hygiene to table manners, the findings fascinate - even if we don't wish that we were there" Independent i "Mortimer's book has something for everyone... His curiosity is boundless and his profound scholarship is leavened by a sense of fun" -- Christopher Silver Daily Express "Entertaining history of the country's landscape, people, religion, health and culture in the 16th century" The Times

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