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![]() Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world. In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England Paperback Apby Ian Mortimer (Author) 1,218 ratings Book 2 of 4: Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time?In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. ![]() ![]() We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. The past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England From the author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth’s England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary. ![]()
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