The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
Jonathan Cape
This radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. It shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived.<br>
  
      
        
<span>Imagine you could get 
into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets 
out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through 
taking the reader to the Middle Ages, and showing everything from the 
horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks 
and haute couture.</span>