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This is a short and simple guidebook to 14th century England. Mortimer approaches this century topically: the landscape, the people, the medieval character, what to wear, health and hygiene, law.... Not surprisingly, he's also very sympathetic to medieval people. We're keen on looking at them smugly, but Mortimer reflects that "We might eat differently, be taller,* and live longer, and we might look at jousting as being unspeakably dangerous and not at all a sport, but we know what grief is and what love, fear, pain, ambition, enmity and hunger are. We should always remember that what we have in common with the past is just as important, real, and as essential to our lives as those things which make us different."
*I'm certain that I'm not taller than anybody, in any time.
I learned a lot from this book. I learned that the population was much, much younger than we are today, which would account for the impetuous violence of the time. I learned that a man may have beat his wife, but not too harshly lest he be punished by the law, but a woman need not fear prosecution for beating her husband. I learned that heels and garters were worn by men alone, and the women loved it, so much so that the monks were scandalized. I want to learn more about the Peasant's Revolt, which was mentioned in the two medieval history books that I read this year.
Mortimer is a good guide for the Middle Ages. His [b:Henry IV: The Righteous King|21939281|Henry IV The Righteous King|Ian Mortimer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1397686035s/21939281.jpg|1093000] was one of the first medieval histories that I read, and I was hooked.
*I'm certain that I'm not taller than anybody, in any time.
I learned a lot from this book. I learned that the population was much, much younger than we are today, which would account for the impetuous violence of the time. I learned that a man may have beat his wife, but not too harshly lest he be punished by the law, but a woman need not fear prosecution for beating her husband. I learned that heels and garters were worn by men alone, and the women loved it, so much so that the monks were scandalized. I want to learn more about the Peasant's Revolt, which was mentioned in the two medieval history books that I read this year.
Mortimer is a good guide for the Middle Ages. His [b:Henry IV: The Righteous King|21939281|Henry IV The Righteous King|Ian Mortimer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1397686035s/21939281.jpg|1093000] was one of the first medieval histories that I read, and I was hooked.