This is a superbly written book which gives you excellent insight into what it would have been like to live back in the 1300s, by the simple method of acting as a travel book for your trip through time. I had several stereotypes upset (they did like to bath and noticed people who smelled bad), wa...
Very nicely written description of what 14th century England would be like if you were to visit. Most history seems to be written about kings and queens or the battles and dates of wars. This is a look at the entire range of classes of people from the poorest on up to royalty and what you could e...
All of this is filtered through the fact that I read this for school. Most people in the class didn't actually read it, though several who did were more enthusiastic than students usually are about assigned readings. I think I like the author's medieval-England analogue better, though I'm less ...
A consistently lucid, compelling "eyewitness" account of every aspect of life in England in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth. So much great information to pull out of here. Mortimer shows us not just the ways in which the people of this era were radically different from us, but also all the c...
The past is like visiting a foreign country and what better thing to have than a guide? That is the premise behind author Ian Mortimer’s latest book. If you magically were transposed to say 1585 London, how would you wash your clothes? How much would food cost? What is the most common food to...
