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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

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by Ian Mortimer
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Publication Date: 01/05/2013
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From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent years, the follow-up to The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time?

In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.

'Vivid trip back to the 16th century...highly entertaining book' Guardian
ISBN:
9780099542070
9780099542070
Category:
British & Irish history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x27mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer is a prize-winning historian and novelist, the author of twenty books, best known for his bestselling Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval and Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain.

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I'm so used to movie and TV dramas that portray Tudor England as being more or less the same as our society, just in fancy dress with a lot more violent ways to meet one's death - hanging or burning at the stake anyone? But this book strips away more than the superficial and looks at everything from how the actual landscape has changed to the minutiae of everyday life prior to the industrial revolution, where technology was non existent. The depth of the detail, on a myriad of simple everyday things like clothes, food, housing, language, travel, social hierarchy etc., enabled my imagination to step straight back into another age altogether. This would be a great intro to the period for students, making a change form the usual focus on Queen Elizabeth and her court. A genuinely entertaining book.

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