The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Brain Shot
Jul 2010 · Random House
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The past is a foreign country: this 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 going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?
This is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance and fear.
BRAIN SHOTS: the byte-sized guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages
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 going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?
This is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance and fear.
BRAIN SHOTS: the byte-sized guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages
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2.6
5 reviews
48caro
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April 8, 2014
This isn't a book I paid six bucks for a pamplet! I feel like I have been fooled. don't, waste your money. There are other 'brain shots' to avoid they have black covers and look like full length books but when you look closely you read that they are only 25 pages each, no pics, and some are not even full pages. It's a scam Random House should be ashamed. Byte sized books for a full meal prize!
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Sonje Nerina
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October 21, 2019
pages supposed to be 358 where did they go. just wasted my money!Feeling pissed off.
Phil
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April 28, 2013
Enjoyable but amazingly short. More like a pamphlet.
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About the author
Ian Mortimer has BA and PhD degrees in history from Exeter University and an MA in archive studies from University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998, and was awarded the Alexander Prize (2004) by the Royal Historical Society for his work on the social history of medicine. He is the author of three medieval biographies, The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, and The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King, published in 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively by Jonathan Cape. He lives with his wife and three children on the edge of Dartmoor.
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