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The Time Traveler's Guide To Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
Touchstone Books
November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1439112908
EAN: 9781439112908
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Non-Fiction
The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A
time machine has just transported you back into the
fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How
do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of
food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?
And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is not your
typical look at a historical period. This radical new
approach shows us that the past is not just something to be
studied; it is also something to be lived. Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household
accounts, and poems of the day, Mortimer transports you back
in time, providing answers to questions typically ignored by
traditional historians. You will learn how to greet people
on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician
might want to taste your blood, and how to know whether you
are coming down with leprosy. The result is the most astonishing social history book
you’re ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept,
informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling
for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence,
exuberance, and fear.
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