The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England write by Ian Mortimer. This book was released on 2013-06-27. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I From the author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth’s England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer relates in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England to the complex and contradictory Elizabethan attitudes toward violence, class, sex, and religion. Original enough to interest those with previous knowledge of Elizabethan England and accessible enough to entertain those without, The Time Traveler’s Guide is a book for Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England write by Ian Mortimer. This book was released on 2012. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain write by Ian Mortimer. This book was released on 2021-12-21. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. This is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his time-travelling prowess. 'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality' Daily Mail
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain write by Ian Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-04-11. The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s 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 twenty-one? What is considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? 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.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England write by Ian Mortimer. This book was released on 2012-02-29. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller's Guide Ian Mortimer's radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived, whether that's the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative, as entertaining as it is startling. 'Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time' The Times 'After The Canterbury Tales this has to be the most entertaining book ever written about the middle ages' Guardian
