The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Superbly lively and filled with telling anecdote.

Toby Clements, The Big Issue in the North

Amazing

Alison Weir

He has a novelist's eye for detail, and his portrait of an England in which sheep are the size of dogs, 30-year-old women are regarded as so much "winter forage", and green vegetables widely held to be poisonous has something of the hallucinatory quality of science-fiction

Daily Telegraph

[Mortimer] sets out to re-enchant the 14th Century, taking us by the hand through a landscape furnished with jousting knights, 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

This is not only an unusual book, but a thoroughly engaging one

Literary Review

After The Canterbury Tales this has to be the most entertaining book ever written about the middle ages

Sue Arnold, Guardian

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

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 lived - 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

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

The most enjoyable history book I've read all year

Independent, Books of the Year

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