Books by Ian Mortimer
Ian Mortimer is the bestselling author of the Time Traveller’s Guides series, as well as Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter and four critically acclaimed biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2015. 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 on the edge of Dartmoor.
Interviews with Ian Mortimer
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Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD
by Colin Platt -
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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience
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The Great Household in Late Medieval England
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200–1520
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Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England
by Carole Rawcliffe
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley. The question is: in what ways? Historian Ian Mortimer talks us through five influential books that shed light on daily life in medieval England—from monastic communities and great households to the gruelling lives of the peasantry.
The best books on Life in the Tudor Era, recommended by Ian Mortimer
History is not about understanding the past for the sake of it, it’s about understanding human nature, says the historian and novelist Ian Mortimer.
