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S'està carregant… The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to… (2008)de Ian Mortimer
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Una molt interessant proposta de com pensar que seria una experiència personal de viure ara a l'Anglaterra d'època Medieval. El to de Ian Mortimer m'ha semblat molt encertat, demostrant una bondat i obertura de ment molt adients per emprendre aquest objectiu d'imaginació històrica. Un clàssic que ara podeu llegir també en castellà i que recomano molt a qui li interessi la història. (  ) aniol | Dec 11, 2022 | 
 The pleasure of reading Mortimer's "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" is its Fodor's-style framework. "A travel book about a past age allows us to see its inhabitants in a sympathetic way," writes Mortimer, "not as a series of graphs showing fluctuations in grain yields or household income but as an investigation into the sensations of being alive in a different time."  Ian Mortimer doesn't hold with any fancy notion about the past being impossible to know. Not for him the postmodern practice of confining historical discussions to the sources and letting "once upon a time" take care of itself. What Mortimer wants is living history, loud and close. In The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England he sets out to re-enchant the 14th century, taking us by the hand through a landscape furnished with jousting knights, revolting peasants and beautiful ladies in wimples. It is Monty Python and the Holy Grail with footnotes and, my goodness, it is fun.  The result is a book that, like his biography of Henry IV, fascinates and frustrates in equal measure. By far the best sections are those in which Mortimer stays truest to his conceit, and writes as though his ideal readers really are time-travellers, peeping out through the doors of their Tardis at a world which unsettlingly mixes the familiar and the bizarre. He has a novelist's eye for detail, and his portrait of an England in which sheep are the size of dogs, 30-year-old women are regarded as so much "winter forage", and green vegetables widely held to be poisonous has something of the hallucinatory quality of science-fiction. Pertany a aquestes sèries
A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? Where will you stay? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? This is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. All facets of the everyday lives of serf, merchant, and aristocrat in this fascinating period are revealed, from the horrors of the plague and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and medieval haute couture.--From publisher description. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)942.03 — History and Geography Europe England and Wales England Plantagenet 1154-1399LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (4.04)
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