On first publication it was widely praised. The book has sold more than 250,000 paperback copies in the UK, 100,000 copies in the USA, and is published in several other languages. The book is one of the best-selling social history titles of the twenty-first century, it reached number six on the Sunday Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list at Christmas 2009. Illustrations Īll the illustrations in the volume were provided by British Library. It is ground-breaking in historical literature in that it is written entirely in the present tense. Mortimer goes into details about food, clothing, building materials, the layout of houses, but also covers things like laws, customs, travel, entertainment. The book is confined to the 14th century in England, with passing references to the Continent. The volume debunks and explains various myths about the period. It was first published on 2 October 2008 by The Bodley Head, and a later edition with more pages was released on 29 February 2012. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century is a handbook about Late Medieval England by British historian Ian Mortimer. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
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