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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Touchstone 2009; US$ 16.00The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time... more...
Medieval Intrigue
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 29.95In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach... more...
The Greatest Traitor
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast, and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the Queen of England, who threw herself into his arms. A year later, as lovers, they returned with an invading... more...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Brain Shot
Random House 2010; US$ 6.53The past is a foreign country: t his is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century . What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guesthouse? And what are you going to eat? What sort of food are you... more...
The Perfect King
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 13.34He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as the most brilliant king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship... more...
The Dying and the Doctors
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 90.00From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth centu more...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. 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... more...
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 13.34Henry V is regarded as the great English hero . Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled... more...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller's Guide ... Ian Mortimer's... more...
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99The author of The Time Traveler?s Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I From the author of The Time Traveler?s Guide to Medieval England , this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth?s England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries... more...
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