An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world- England in the Middle Ages.
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (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.
Superbly lively and filled with telling anecdote.
*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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