The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Mortimer, Ian
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- London: Bodley Head, 2008.
- Physical Description
- ix, 341 pp.; color illus.
- Description
- Popular social history, presented as a travel guide for the "historical traveler," i.e., the modern traveler in medieval England; includes sections on "Where to Stay," "What to Eat and Drink," etc. The index cites numerous references to Chaucer as a source of information, and the discussion of the poet (pp. 283-88) emphasizes his depictions of character and "human interest."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism