Books by Ian Mortimer
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English
review 1: I thought I had read everything regarding Tudor Britain,but no. This guide walks you through a journey around the country during Tudor times,you are transported back to a time when money,men and religion ruled. Disease and death is ubiquitous,medicine is in it's infancy and yet e...
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English
review 1: Man, history will never be boring and Mortimer brought its charisma to a whole new level by going through the specific elements Elizabethan England comprises of. From the kinds of food peasants and noblemen eat, to their complicated clothes, up to their lifestyles and pastimes. E...
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English
review 1: If all you want to know about Elizabethan England begins with Paltrow and ends with Blanchett, you may want to skip this review. If you really want to know how real English people managed to struggle, get along, and succeed at the end of the 16th Century, you will enjoy what Ian...
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English
review 1: I often conduct a thought experiment, putting myself 500 years into the future and imagine myself looking back on our 21st Century modern life. Would our legal system look fair? Would our medicine appear sophisticated? Would our social norms appear modern? Would our houses, towns...