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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer
4.02 AVERAGE
572 reviews for:
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer
4.02 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
medium-paced
A totally different take on "how we used to live" in the style of a Lonely Planet style guide. Full of facts yet very readable, there's always something new that you learn when you thought history lessons had told you everything.
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
Very informative and fun. Some chapters I felt I couldn’t put down and some chapters were very slow.
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
slow-paced
Boring. History books are not for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I would give this a 3.5, but that's not possible. An interesting and fun read! Only reason I give this a lower score is the fact that I did not enjoy this AS much as many other books I've read lately that have been hard to put down. Maybe this one's just different.
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Mortimer's approach is that if you were a time traveler visiting the past, your concerns would be the day-to-day sorts of things: what should I wear, where will I sleep, and so forth. He even talks a bit about cultural relativism - that it's unfair of us to apply modern standards - say, for hygiene - to another era in which they did not even understand germ theory. Highly recommended - I wish there were 12 more of these.
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced