The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain

A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699

De: Ian Mortimer

Narrado por: Roger Clark

Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys' diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares. How would you find your way around? Where would you stay? What would you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be welcome?

This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century. The last witch is sentenced to death just two years before Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern science, is published. Religion still has a severe grip on society and yet some - including the king - flout every moral convention they can find. There are great fires in London and Edinburgh; the plague disappears; a global trading empire develops.

Over these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and replaced by a tremendous cultural flowering. Why are half the people you meet under the age of 21? What is considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? Ian Mortimer delves into the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and detailed picture of society at the dawn of the modern world as only he can.

©2017 Ian Mortimer (P)2017 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Social historian Mortimer is on to a good thing. His previous, similarly structured books, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, charmed readers, and this latest will do the same." ( Kirkus)

Really excellent

Recommend d to all those interested in the history of daily life in the past.

A delightful and submersible book!

One of THE best written and performed books I've come across. Extensive research on the human condition with a flowing narration makes this book so engaging.

Well narrated; Thorough study

I liked the way the book presents the author’s exhaustive study of this period of English history and literature. Author does have long lists of things but it adds color to the time period. I recommend.

Good book, terrible narrator

I enjoy this series from Mortimer and have learned a lot but this narrator is just not good. I wish there were a better narrator to make the listening experience far more enjoyable.

One of the best!

One of the best historical books that dives into daily life. You too will fall in love with Celia Fines and laugh with and at Samuel Pypes.