From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent years, the follow-up to The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.
Dr Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, eight other books and many peer-reviewed articles on English history between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Alexander Prize (2004) for his work on the social history of medicine in seventeenth-century England. In June 2011, the University of Exeter awarded him a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) by examination, on the strength of his historical work. He also writes historical fiction, published under his middle names (James Forrester). He lives with his wife and three children on the edge of Dartmoor, in Devon. For further information about him and a full bibliography, see his website- www.ianmortimer.com.
Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure.
*The Bookseller*
It is a magnificent social history, rich and scholarly, but with
the verve and intrigue of a great novel
*Rory Clements*
As Mortimer puts it, 'sometimes the past will inspire you,
sometimes it will make you weep'. What it won’t do, thanks to this
enthralling book, is leave you unmoved
*Mail on Sunday*
An astonishingly colourful portrait of an astonishingly colourful
era, one sophisticated enough to include, and make sense of, all
its contradictions. It is as if Mortimer has restored an old
painting, stripping it of its cloaking layers of brown varnish to
reveal its vitality and life afresh
*Daily Telegraph*
Mortimer brings...depth and flair to the age of Shakespeare and the
Virgin Queen. From dental hygiene to table manners, the findings
fascinate – even if we don’t wish that we were there
*Independent*
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