satsumabug 's review for:

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

3.0

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I learned a lot from this book, but must point out that as a woman of color, I still have very little idea how my time-traveling self might have been received. Mortimer says almost nothing about ethnic diversity (though I know there was some and possibly much more than we typically assume), and although I realize this is also a limitation of the sources, I disliked seeing women essentially lumped into sidebars the way we have been in so many history books.

In short, though this book in some ways brought to life the great richness of lived experience versus the dry recountings of history books, in many other significant ways it does no better than other books in conveying the complexity of human trajectories.