The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: A Sensory Ride (Enhanced Edition) The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: A Sensory Ride (Enhanced Edition)

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: A Sensory Ride (Enhanced Edition‪)‬

Descripción editorial

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.

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.

  • GÉNERO
    Historia
    PUBLICADO
    2013
    30 de mayo
    IDIOMA
    EN
    Inglés
    EXTENSIÓN
    432
    Páginas
    EDITORIAL
    Random House
    VENDEDOR
    The Random House Group Limited
    TAMAÑO
    198
    MB

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