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The Time Traveller's Guide to Midieval England by Ian Mortimer takes readers on a fascinating and very real tour of the past. Mortimer highlights how residents of different classes lived, including the hospitality available to travellers of different distinctions. He points out the styles, foods, and architecture while also expertly defining who had access to each (or didn't).
Mortimer is conversational and insightful, while also painting a very vivid picture of the realities faced by the people of midieval England.
By far the best characteristic of The Time Traveller's Guide is the author's approach to history as a living entity. Readers visit very real people, living people -- which is refreshingly different from many histories that approach those from the past as long-dead, one dimensional people simply being reviewed. This unique lens makes the book lively and engaging - and truly feel like a tour of a living, breathing past.
Mortimer is conversational and insightful, while also painting a very vivid picture of the realities faced by the people of midieval England.
By far the best characteristic of The Time Traveller's Guide is the author's approach to history as a living entity. Readers visit very real people, living people -- which is refreshingly different from many histories that approach those from the past as long-dead, one dimensional people simply being reviewed. This unique lens makes the book lively and engaging - and truly feel like a tour of a living, breathing past.