The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

This book describes fourteenth-century England as if the reader were arriving there and needed to know how to eat, dress, travel, sleep, and stay out of trouble. Mortimer organizes chapters around landscape, people, character, basic needs, clothing, roads, lodging, and sights, using chronicles, court rolls, and household accounts. He treats plague, law, ranks, and the look of towns as practical conditions rather than as a royal narrative. The work is an immersive social history, not a novel and not a year-by-year chronicle of kings.

Bound in blue buckram blocked with a picture in black and gold. Blue slipcase.