The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

De: Ian Mortimer

Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble

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

Reseñas de la Crítica

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

Just incredible

I thought this book was highly entertaining ! Just read it already. If you love history but don't want something too serious and boring this is for you.

Terrific!!

Loved every minute!! Fascinating history of the Medieval world. Highly recommended to young and old!

A fascinating trip back in tme

The narrator does a fantastic job of putting the listener in the streets if medieval England. It is such a beautiful piece and is enjoyable from start to finish.

Top Quality in all Repects

Well-researched, written and narrated. A jewel of an audio title. Found myself wishing it was twice as long.

Great and easy listening

A nice history of medieval England from the perspective of the people who lived it. Easy to listen to and understand. Detailed and selves into everyday life. I used this as a source of inspiration for creating a realistic fleshed out medieval village in my writing and this didn’t disappoint.

Really good! Better than expected!

A vivid depiction of regular life in medieval England, from the lowest peasant up to the king. The author sets you in the eyes of a traveler on the ground of England in the 1300s. You see detailed descriptions of the common peasant lives, the free yeomans and the aristocracy. it at least touches on most parts of normal life and really gives a sense of what it would have been like to live during that time. I'm a history buff myself and i was quite pleasantly surprised by what a pleasure it was to listen to this. I would 100% recommend this to anyone who's interested in history at all.

Simply a great book.

I loved this. The reader of this particular book was fabulous. I would get books just to hear him read them as it really flowed and made not only for great information but great entertainment. I thoroughly recommend this for anyone who enjoys reading about the middle ages. The author picked the 14th century. A time between 1300 and 1400 for his time traveling. At first I wasn't so sure, but on reflection this is probably one of the better periods of time in the middle ages to pick that offers a wide variety for the time traveler to experience. this book makes you wish time traveling was a thing and that we could all step back and not only see the middle ages but taste, feel, smell, and hear the day-to-day lives of all those people back then.

Cultural immersion in a long ago age.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I liked the perspective of the book. It is important to understand as much as possible from the periods point of view rather than judging it only from our current perspective.

Any additional comments?

On occasion, there was a bit of condescension in the narrators presentation which defeats the purpose of looking at the period through its own eyes.

Great Cultural History

This was a great review of how people dressed, learned, ate, travelled, interacted during this century. In short how they lived. I loved it.

Most excellent.

I have listened to it 2x now. I wish there were 10 more of them. If you are interested in the lives of the people of Medieval England this is for you. Excellent narration and vivid and colorful descriptions of everyday lives and customs of England in tthe 1300s.

I absolutely loved it.