The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
A literary time machine transports the reader into fourteenth-century England and treats the past as a place to inhabit rather than merely study. Mortimer reconstructs daily life by asking practical questions: how people dressed, how they earned and were paid for work, what foods peasants, monks, or lords would offer, and where a traveler might stay.
Using daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and contemporary poems, Mortimer provides vivid concrete details such as greetings on the street, what was used as toilet paper, why a physician might taste blood, and how leprosy could be identified. The book portrays humanity amid violence, exuberance, and fear.
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Book details
- Series
- Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides Book 1 of 4
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Publication date
- October 25, 2011
- Print length
- 352 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 978-1439112908
History + England
What to Know Before Reading The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Practical, everyday questions about life in fourteenth-century England. Much of the setup centers on social and material details drawn from chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems. The book emphasizes concrete habits such as greetings, hygiene, medical practices, food, and lodging. This may appeal more to someone interested in immersive, source-based reconstructions of daily life and the atmosphere of an age marked by violence, exuberance, and fear.
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