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Very good; organized like a modern travel guide to a foreign country. Fascinating chapter on clothing.
LOVED it!!!! This is the sort of book that I'll recommend to the next 50 people that I see, whether or not they look like the sort of people who'd enjoy learning about medieval England. It was just fascinating to me. Mortimer stuffs this book full of the kind of details that I always wanted to know, but that every other author skips right over. I don't want a treatise on the building styles of medieval England, but I do want to know what the housing was like for the average person. I do want to
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Mortimer's title and subtitle tell it all. I could hardly be better acquainted with the fourteenth century had I access to the TARDIS.
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What every secret time traveler wanna be needs! Such an engaging book. Loved it!
This was a fun audio book. Very descriptive.
Very readable history of 14th century England.
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