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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Af: Ian Mortimer Engelsk Paperback

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Af: Ian Mortimer Engelsk Paperback
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''A fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly'' Independent

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.


We think of Queen Elizabeth I''s reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. 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 reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth''s subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.

''Vivid trip back to the 16th century...highly entertaining book'' Guardian

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''A fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly'' Independent

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.


We think of Queen Elizabeth I''s reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. 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 reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth''s subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.

''Vivid trip back to the 16th century...highly entertaining book'' Guardian

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780099542070
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0099542072
Kategori: England
Udg. Dato: 7 mar 2013
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 7 mar 2013
Forfatter(e): Ian Mortimer
Forfatter(e) Ian Mortimer


Kategori England


ISBN-13 9780099542070


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 432


Udgave


Længde 30mm


Bredde 127mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 7 mar 2013


Oplagsdato 7 mar 2013


Forlag Vintage Publishing

Kategori sammenhænge