Summary Of Ian Mortimers Medieval Horizons

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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Summary of Ian Mortimer's Medieval Horizons written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Ian Mortimer's Medieval Horizons in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Medieval Horizons" by Ian Mortimer challenges the notion that the Middle Ages were a stagnant period devoid of significant change. Contrary to the belief that technological advancements are the sole drivers of societal transformation, the book argues that the medieval era saw profound shifts in social structures, cultural practices, and worldviews. Mortimer examines ten instances where the expansion of literal and metaphorical horizons indicates substantial social and cultural change, often overlooked due to the era's underestimation...

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781529920802
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Medieval Horizons written by Ian Mortimer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world. Praise for Ian Mortimer: 'The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time' - The Times

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Publisher : Everest Media LLC
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Summary of Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-08T22:59:00Z with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The city is so proud, so grand, and in some places so beautiful, but it also displays all the disgusting features of a bloated glutton. The city as a whole is a caricature of the human body: smelly, dirty, commanding, rich, and indulgent. #2 A major town is a intimidating place. It is a place of fear and decay, but it is also a place of activity and life. As you walk under the shadow of a city gatehouse, you realize that it is much more than that. #3 The city is alive with activity, and within a short time, you forget about the traitors. The absence of animal dung in the streets is a sign of the city’s vitality. #4 The noise and textures of the city do not reflect the fact that few people actually live in the larger towns and cities of England. The daytime population of a city can be two or even three times greater than the number of people living within the walls.

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1845950992
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England written by Ian Mortimer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845950976
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book 1415 written by Ian Mortimer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic account of King Henry V and the legendary Battle of Agincourt, from the author of the bestselling Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval England

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439149140
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England written by Ian Mortimer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. All facets of everyday life in this fascinating period are revealed, from the horrors of the plague and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and medieval haute couture. Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems of the day, Morti-mer transports you back in time, providing answers to questions typically ignored by traditional historians. You will learn how to greet people on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician might want to taste your blood, and how to know whether you are coming down with leprosy. From the first step on the road to the medieval city of Exeter, through meals of roast beaver and puffin, Mortimer re-creates this strange and complex period of history. Here, the lives of serf, merchant, and aristocrat are illuminated with re-markable detail in this engaging literary journey. The result is the most astonishing social history book you're 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.

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795301111
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Horizons written by Ian Mortimer and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670026074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England written by Ian Mortimer and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" takes readers through the world and daily life of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I, and others. Organized as a travel guide for time-hopping tourists, Mortimer's work will interest Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike.

Author : Enthralling History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781956296310
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Medieval England: an Enthralling Overview of the English Middle Ages written by Enthralling History and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1008 pages
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