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A review by rosemaryandrue
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
In this book we are taken on a tour of 14th century England, seeing how people lived, what they ate and what society was like back then.
The idea of a ground level insight into any other society is a fun one, but for that society to be displaced not just in place but in time as well just adds more depth to it. I listened to the audiobook, which made me feel a bit like I was on an extended audio guide tour in the best way. Mortimer hits all the highlights, telling me about things I wondered about like what people ate and wore back then, and plenty of things I hadn't even known what I wanted to know like how justice was carried out and what traveling was like.
The idea of a ground level insight into any other society is a fun one, but for that society to be displaced not just in place but in time as well just adds more depth to it. I listened to the audiobook, which made me feel a bit like I was on an extended audio guide tour in the best way. Mortimer hits all the highlights, telling me about things I wondered about like what people ate and wore back then, and plenty of things I hadn't even known what I wanted to know like how justice was carried out and what traveling was like.