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Medieval horizons : why the Middle Ages matter / Ian Mortimer.

by Mortimer, Ian, 1967-

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The Bodley Head, 2023.

Civilization, Medieval.

Great Britain -- Civilization -- 16th century.

Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.

9781847927446 (hc.)

246 p., 8 unnumbered pages : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised 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. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating indroduction to the Middle Ages, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically between 1000 and 1600. All aspects of life were utterly transormed during this time, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare..."--Jacket.

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