The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages.
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An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages.
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Subtitled: "A Handbook For Visitors To The Fourteenth Century". A history lesson in the guide of a chatty, funny guidebook which prepares the reader for how to greet people in the street, how to check for signs of plague and the sights, smells and structures of medieval society. From the bestselling author of "The Greatest Traitor" which has sold over 18,000 copies to date. 'Social history is popular enough but I have read nothing quite like this.' "Literary Review".Autoren-Porträt von Ian Mortimer
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian Mortimer
- 2009, 352 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 1845950992
- ISBN-13: 9781845950996
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2009
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Englisch
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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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Superbly lively and filled with telling anecdote. The Big Issue in the North
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