notunremarkable 's review for:

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

4.0

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This book was a real treat to read. It reads more like a travel book than a history book, which really helps bring the 14th century to life. The author does a great job of telling you how it is and asking the reader to withhold judging these Medieval people with our modern eyes. Simply see how they lived and understand all the factors that went into that way of life. Mortimer details many aspects of life from entertainment to law and order to living conditions. And he spares no section of the populace, so you learn how the King and nobles lived as well as the merchants, freemen, and villeins (peasants).

I'm looking forward to the guide to Restoration England and Elizabethan England now too. Such a great way to absorb history, in my opinion.