Imagine if you could take a time machine back to England in the Middle Ages. What would you see, do, eat … and smell?
Author Ian Mortimer answers those questions and many others in lucid detail in The Time Traveller’s Guide To Medieval England, a groundbreaking ‘historical travel guide, which an Independent Newspaper reviewer called “the most enjoyable history book I’ve read all year”.
Writing as a medieval tour guide might have, Mortimer, the bestselling author of The Fears Of Henry IV and The Perfect King, encourages you to ‘live’ through medieval history, taking in all its realities, from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.