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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer (Hardcover, 2012)
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We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England?. What would you eat?. What would you wear?. Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age?.
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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. He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is iProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781847921147
eBay Product ID (ePID)111913689
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
AuthorIan Mortimer
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width162mm
Item Weight853g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorIan Mortimer
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 08 Sep, 2021
5/5
Fascinating stuff. You read a few pages and get submerged into a world 500 years ago.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 May, 2021
Recommended
Great bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Nov, 2024
Engaging
Most engaging, written in a very readable styleVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 May, 2024
Great value
Great valueVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
