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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

  • A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
  • By: Ian Mortimer
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (120 ratings)

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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

By: Ian Mortimer
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat?

Ian Mortimer shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. He sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you to the Middle Ages.

The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: evolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance and fear.

©2008 Ian Mortimer (P)2009 Isis Publishing Ltd

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"A jaunty journey through the 14th century, one that wriggles with the stuff of everyday life." ( Guardian)

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A fascinating glimpse into human nature

Fascinating to see that what shaped humans in the 14th c still shapes them now. The insight that we have not changed very much at all since then (a point that the author is not really trying to make), makes the book worthwhile on its own. The insights into law, corruption, vice, day to day existence and the social structure from serf to Kung and everything else is also wonderful. Well told and absorbing thanks to the skilled narrator and excellent writing.

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Great book.

Total immersion into another time and place. I loved it.
The narrator was easy on the ears too.

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Amazing

I find myself continually re-listening to this book as it contains a wealth of knowledge and interesting facts!

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A totally absorbing work

I was completely transported by this work to the medieval era. The imagery described and events unfolded in a way I have never experienced history before.
Mortimer is right / it’s not just us ‘looking back’ - it’s US now making our lives out of what is around us

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Very very good

Very very very good so well researched organised and performed, this book deserves all your time so get yourself and early Christmas present and listen to this book because it really is the balls

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Loved it

Fantastic - brought the 14th century alive for me - I could close my eyes and smell and see - fantastic.

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Informative and entertaining

I love history and this book really puts you in the middle of it. Gives some insight into what life was like for ordinary folk as well as the high and mighty. Easy listening.

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Feel yourself drift through time

through ian mortimer you will undersrand the people of the medieval world in a compassionate way.

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Excellent.

A wonderful story of the past, and its relevance to the present and to the future. Extremely well narrated and written. It is a good rebuff to the Wokism or some of the Cancel Culture proponents. In essence we are just time travellers and reliving the Canterbury Tales is a great way to start.

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Fascinating and comprehensive

This was fascinating stuff - made better by the perfect narration from Jonathan Keeble . This is an interesting and accessible history of a period that, thanks to Hollywood is often misunderstood and misrepresented as being less complex and less structured than modern times

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