- Published: 1 December 2009
- ISBN: 9781845950996
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Published: 1 December 2009
- ISBN: 9781845950996
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
[Mortimer] sets out to re-enchant the 14th Century, taking us by the hand through a landscape furnished with jousting nights, revolting peasants and beautiful ladies in wimples. It is Monty Python and the Holy Grail with footnotes, and, my goodness it is fun... the result of this careful blend of scholarship and fancy is a jaunty journey through the 14th Century, one that wriggles with the stuff of everyday life
Guardian
Social history is popular enough but I have read nothing quite like this. It is written in the manner of an extremely well-informed but chatty guidebook...This is not only an unusual book, but a thoroughly engaging one
Literary Review
As lively as it is informative. His (Mortimer's) work of speculative social history is eminently entertaining but this doesn't detract from the seriousness and the thorough research involved
Financial Times
This is the history book I've been waiting for: the essential handbook for any would-be Time Lords wishing to travel to the Middle Ages. Thorough, detailed and totally absorbing
Jason Webster
A unique and astonishing social history book which is revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining
History magazine
Addressing the reader directly, his aim, triumphantly achieved, is to engage our sympathies with people whose similarities to us are as fascinating as their lives
Sunday Telegraph
Entertaining, informative and fun
Daily Express
Ian Mortimer is taking readers on a sense-smacking tour of the 14th century, which is guaranteed to make us wrinkle our noses in disgust and delight by turns
Daily Mail
Successfully communicating the extraordinary energy of this vibrant, cathedral-building time
Alistair Mabbott, Sunday Herald
This superb "rough guide" to 14th century England takes a fresh approach to history by thinking of the past not as something simply to be studied, but as something to be lived.
Aimee Shalan, Guardian
Successfully communicating the extraordinary energy of this vibrant, cathedral-building time.
Alastair Mabbott, Sunday Herald
Sparkling book...terrific
William Leith, Scotsman
To read this book is to be transported to 14th - century England, in the company of a knowledgeable and witty guide. Dr Mortimer's book is a complete social history of medieval England. All you ever wondered about how people live-and much more- is here.
BBC History Magazine
Ian Mortimer puts the little man back into the 14th Century in this sights, smells, sounds and swords-based romp ... Fans of popular history and historical fiction will devour it ... It is Mortimer's best work to date
Dan Jones, The Telegraph
Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time
The Times