Ian Mortimer

Medieval Horizons (eBook, ePUB)

Why the Middle Ages Matter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the author of The Time Traveller's Guide series-"the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" (The Times, UK). We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. But as Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, we couldn't be more wrong. In this revelatory history, Mortimer shows how people's horizons-their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world-were utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Medieval Horizons sheds light on the enormous cultural changes that took place-from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self. Mortimer demonstrates why this was a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RosettaBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780795301117
• Artikelnr.: 70143503

Autorenporträt

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.