The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Dr Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, eight other books and many peer-reviewed articles on English history between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Alexander Prize (2004) for his work on the social history of medicine in seventeenth-century England. In June 2011, the University of Exeter awarded him a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) by examination, on the strength of his historical work. He also writes historical fiction, published under his middle names (James Forrester). He lives with his wife and three children on the edge of Dartmoor, in Devon. For further information about him and a full bibliography, see his website: www.ianmortimer.com. Zusammenfassung The past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.

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• Authors: Ian Mortimer
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780099542070
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954207-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides; Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; England, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599