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

E-bok, Engelska, 2012

Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Av Ian Mortimer

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What to eat and wear, fear and enjoy in medieval England Suppose you could actually visit medieval England. Where would you sleep? What would you eat? What should you wear? And how would you know whether you were falling ill with the plague? Ian Mortimer turns social history into a practical guide for the imaginary traveller. Drawing on chronicles, legal records, household inventories, medical writing and literature, he reconstructs the sights, sounds, smells and assumptions of fourteenth-century life. The result overturns the familiar picture of a uniformly filthy, static and backward Middle Ages. England emerges as a varied society of towns and markets, changing fashions, difficult journeys, religious devotion, social mobility, violence and humour. Mortimer guides readers through housing, food, health, law, clothing, work and entertainment while explaining the ideas and rules that made this world intelligible to the people living in it. ‘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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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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"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 " -- Sue Arnold Guardian

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