The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England

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Ian Mortimer We think of Queen Elizabeth I as Gloriana the most powerful English woman in history We think of her reign 1558 1603 as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay What would you eat What would you wear Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth century England would ask Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader Publisher Bodley Head Hardback ISBN 9781847921147 In stock and available for immediate despatch Read The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England – kino-fada.fr We all know why Elizabethan England fascinates us and Ian Mortimer is a wonderful guide His sense of humor and level of detail bridges any gaps in understanding why Elizabethan England may not be a place we would want to live Mortimer expects us to have pre conceived notions and to develop questions as we read We may, for instance, subscribe to the notion that Elizabethan England was a period of the flowering of art and language, and it was to a point By carefully going through all the conti We all know why Elizabethan England fascinates us and Ian Mortimer is a wonderful guide His sense of humor and level of detail bri...This non fiction work, much like it s medieval counterpart, was super informative and a great look back at the late 1500 s during Elizabeth I s rule in England There are so many details of life back then that were absolutely fascinating to read about I loved the details the author presented on the people, reli...We hereby conclude that people from the past were very strange.If there is one modern historian whose works I am immediately drawn to, then it is Ian Mortimer I can strongly recommend his earlier publications The Greatest Traitor The life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327 1330 , The Perfect King The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation , The Fears of Henry IV the Life of England s Self Made King and 1415 Henry V s Year of Glory.There appears to be a plethora of historical time travelling books appearing, su If there is one modern historian whose works I am immediately drawn to, then ...History lovers always debate which authors truly allow readers to live history as much as one can from a modern soda Most will agree that Ian Mortimer is a force to be reckoned with in this genre Riding on the successful format of The Time Traveler s Guide to Medieval England Mortimer presents, The Time Traveler s Guide to Elizabethan Engla...To borrow the phrase from the famous advert, this does what is says on the cover Mortimer whisks you back in time to Elizabethan England and takes you on a journey throughout that period, from the highest court in the lands to the grime and filth of the London metropolis.He starts with the landscape of the time, different in many ways to today, but also familiar as landmarks that we see now are recent additions to the places that he visits Then onto the people The class system rules the aris To borrow the phrase from the famous advert, this does what is says on the cover Mortimer whisks you back in time to Elizabethan England and takes you on a journey throughout that period, from the highest court in the lands to the grime and filth of the London metropolis.He starts with the landscape of the time, different in many ways to today, but also familiar as landmarks that we see now are recent additions to the places that he visits Then onto the people The class system rules the aristocracy and nobility are in charge and there are different layers from gentlemen, yeoman, and artificers and all the way down to the...Written in a manner similar to a travel guide think an historical Lonely Planet , this book is a very interesting read.If you are interested in the minutiae of the period, rather than the sweeping acts of history we are all familiar with, such as the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, then this is an incredibly fascinating book.I highly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in the Elizabethan period It will challenge what you think you know about the time perio Written in a manner similar to a travel guide think an historical Lonely Planet , this book is a very interesting read.If you are interested in the minutiae of the period, rather than the sweeping acts of history we are all familiar with, such as the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, then this is an incredibly fascinating book.I highly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in the Elizabethan period It will challenge what y...FAWKES would be totally lame and boring without the help of this book.Not everyone can be interested in all aspects of Elizabethan life not the casual reader anyway Mortimer obviously is, and covers all topics, from chopping off hands to Shakespeare s sonnets, in detail Detail is often a very good thing, and some little fascinating nuggets of information are what make this book enjoyable However, there are some instances where we find out in seemingly endless lists exactly what Mr and Mrs Elizabethan had in their house at the time of their deaths, or exact Not everyone can be interested in all aspects of Elizabethan life not the casual reader anyway Mortimer obviously is, and covers all topics, from chopping off hands to Shakespeare s sonnets, in detail Detail is often a very good thing, and some little fascinating nuggets of information are what make this book enjoyable However, there are some instances where we find out in seemingly endless lists exactly what Mr and Mrs Elizabethan had in their house at the time of their deaths, or exactly how many eggs, quails, eels etc were stored in a kitchen I am interested in social history, and enjoy learning about day to day life for the normal people of the time, but I found myself skimming the long, long lists of how many pewter jugs they had, how many sheets etc There are just too many of these lines and lines of every single ...view spoiler Bettie s Books hide spoiler

The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England
  • English
  • 19 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 432 pages
  • 1847921140
  • Ian Mortimer
  • The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England