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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
List Price: $26.00 Our Price: $17.58 (As of Jun 19, 02:12 AM) Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details)  • This book is on 3 myArmoury member lists • This book has 1 myArmoury member review
Edition: Hardcover Other editions available: Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Audio CD, Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, CD-ROM, Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Hardcover 99 third-party copies available from: $2.78 (As of Jun 19, 02:12 AM) 
Other items of interest: • The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England • Terry Jones' Medieval Lives • The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium • Life in a Medieval Castle • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England  Product Description: The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook.
A time machine has just transported you back to 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. All facets of everyday life in this fascinating period are revealed, from the horrors of the plague and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and medieval haute couture.
Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems of the day, Morti-mer 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.
From the first step on the road to the medieval city of Exeter, through meals of roast beaver and puffin, Mortimer re-creates this strange and complex period of history. Here, the lives of serf, merchant, and aristocrat are illuminated with re-markable detail in this engaging literary journey. 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. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Ian Mortimer Recording label: Touchstone Publishers: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone EAN: 9781439112892 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 1439112894 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 352 Publication date: 2009-12-29 Release date: 2009-12-29 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: Jun 19, 2013 02:12 AM (GMT -8 hours) |
