The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer's Elizabethan Travel Guide I can add another book to my growing collection. Currently you can purchase from Amazon UK and Book Depository. It will be released in the United States on April 9, 2012

I think Queen Elizabeth I is "Gloriana". It is the most powerful British woman in history. Her rule age (1558 - 1603) was a golden age of great writers such as Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Glennville, Sir Francis Drake and Ocean hero like Edmond We believe. Spencer, Christopher Marlow, Ben Johnson, William Shakespeare. But how does it feel to live in the UK during the Elizabethan era? Where can I stay, if I travel in the past in the 1590s and can walk down the streets of London? What do you eat? What do you wear? Do you feel that it is a really wonderful period? If so, how does the glory coexist with the current cards, illness, violence, sexism, and famine?

In this book, Ian Mortimer responds to the important question that potential travelers will ask Britons in the second half of the 16th century. The Elizabethan world is open to readers, applying the innovative approach he developed with the best-selling medieval time traveler guide

He created a big discovery and showed a society that won the military victory, but at the same time he suffered from the newly discovered consciousness. The life expectancy of the country at birth is early 30s, people are still hungry, and Catholics are persecuted for their beliefs. But it produced some of the best English writing and some of the most magnificent buildings and I saw Elizabeth 's theme settled in America and orbiting the earth. Welcome to contradictory contemporary world

Ian Mortimer is the author of the "Time Travelers Guide of the Middle Ages", "Time Travelers Guide of the Elizabeth Times", and "Millennium". He is a member of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Ancient Art Association. He received the Alexander Award from the Royal Historical Society in 2004 for his work in medical social history.

Mortimer returned to his time machine to give us a guide to British Elizabethan travelers. We will go to the era of exploration, adventure and learning, while "dominating" the most powerful British woman in history "without doubt. But accepting the accepted wisdom, he explained that our rule of Elizabeth I was the golden age, all the Raleigh, Romeo, Juliet and ruby ​​dressed. . "When we heard the word" Armada ", we are considering the victory of the UK ... but at the moment of attack, everything is in the air. In the past, this will limit our doubts, hopes and reality about the present. This is a very suspicious moment

As in the colorful and imaginative practical portraits of the Elizabethan era, few travel guides confront the challenges of time. Historian Ian Mortimer was a former researcher at the Royal Historical Society and visited his hometown with friends and family in the UK five centuries ago. Please visit the dungeon of the Tower of London. The vivid history that faked up as a travel planner is a trip that requires emergency necessary safety notes such as fashion trend (regulation of wrinkles and hem), eating hints (avoiding tomatoes), why bathing is unhealthy Provide advice and facts. And, I have several arrows at hand. In the case of urination of the public habitually take off your hat, regarding the topic of manners, genuine gentlemen may explain more than 17,000 reasons in 1563. I yielded to the plague. He carefully thought the students to fill this gap between optimism and depth. (June)