Crypt Crypt

Crypt

Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    • 1.0 • 1 Rating
    • £9.99
    • £9.99

Publisher Description

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER

'Compulsive . . . A wonderful display of how modern archaeology can bring hidden histories to life' Daily Telegraph 

'Gripping . . . I found it hard to put down' Evening Standard

'Another really good book from archaeologist Alice Roberts . . . Helps you understand the facts on a technical level, but also makes you feel them in your bones' New Scientist 

'Robert's reflections on Thomas Becket and Canterbury Cathedral are especially entertaining . . . Fascinating' Spectator 

The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.

We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.

The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful, there’s barely a written note for most people’s lives. Archaeology represents another way of interrogating our history. By using cutting-edge science to examine human remains and burials, it is possible to unearth details about how individuals lived and died that give us a new understanding of the past – one that is more intimate and inclusive than ever before.
 
The seven stories in Crypt are not comforting tales. We meet the patients at one of the earliest hospitals in England and the victims of the St Brice’s Day Massacre. We see a society struggling to make sense of disease, disability and death, as incurable epidemics sweep through medieval Europe. We learn of a protracted battle between Church and State that led to the murder of Thomas Becket and the destruction of the most famous tomb in England. And we come face to face with the archers who went down with Henry VIII’s favourite ship, the Mary Rose.
 
Beautifully written and expertly researched by Professor Alice Roberts, Crypt is packed with thrilling discoveries that will make you see the history of Britain afresh.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2024
29 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster UK
SIZE
87.3
MB

More Books Like This

Buried Buried
2022
Ancestors Ancestors
2021
River Kings River Kings
2021
Kindred Kindred
2020
The World Before Us The World Before Us
2021
Home Home
2014

More Books by Alice Roberts

Ancestors Ancestors
2021
The Little Book of Humanism The Little Book of Humanism
2020
The Celts The Celts
2015
Tamed Tamed
2017
Buried Buried
2022
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
2014

Customers Also Bought

River Kings River Kings
2021
The Anglo-Saxons The Anglo-Saxons
2021
How They Broke Britain How They Broke Britain
2023
Politics On the Edge Politics On the Edge
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon Killers of the Flower Moon
2017
Act of Oblivion Act of Oblivion
2022