Review of "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This book reveals the 14th century, warts and all. How and where people lived and died, what they ate, how they were clothed, and how various classes interacted.
This was an era of the plague, but also of Chaucer. This book utilizes art (music, paintings and writing) to illustrate and demonstrate, but only a few pages of images. My favorite thing about this book are the comparisons from 1300 to 1400.
Ian Mortimer has written other books in this "series", each more highly rated than this one. Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain (published just last month) will all have to go on my reading list soon.