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. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
An account of a profoundly misunderstood period, which shows that
the Middle Ages were not marked by violence and superstition.
Instead, huge steps in social and economic progress were made, and
the foundations of the modern world were laid
*The Economist*
This enlightening account shows there was more to the period than
plague, superstition and violence
*Economist, *Books of the Year**
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