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漫遊中古英格蘭：十四世紀生活風物誌
來一場穿梭時空之旅，漫遊十四世紀英格蘭想像你自己在某個清晨，身處塵土飛揚的倫敦街頭，一位僕役打開樓上的窗扉，開始撢打一條毛毯；一條看守旅客馱馬的狗開始吠叫；附近的攤商在他們的攤位前叫賣，有兩個女人站在攤位前聊天，一個手搭涼棚遮擋刺眼陽光，另一個手裡拎著籃子……作者將歷史看作是正在進行的事件，透過「擬真歷史」的筆法，人性的欲望與貪婪、希望與恐懼，栩栩如生躍然紙上。十四世紀，是最接近大眾認知的「中古」概念，這種認知還要加上騎士、馬上比武、禮節規矩、藝術與建築等等。這個時期甚至被看作是整個中古時期的縮影，因為它包含英格蘭內戰、對抗鄰國蘇格蘭與法蘭西的戰爭、修院隱修制度、教堂建築、教會修士的傳道、苦修教徒、饑荒、十字軍東征、農民叛亂，以及最重要的黑死病，是了解中古英格蘭最豐富的時期。本書參考大量的史料，包括已經出版和未出版的年鑑、信件、家庭帳冊、詩集和公告文本，以及大英圖書館提供的珍貴歷史繪畫。展書閱讀，踏上時空之旅，漫遊十四世紀的巷弄，體驗當時的生活，不論在酒館小酌或當起朝聖者，你都可以聽到許多有趣的故事。
456 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2014
About the author
Ian Mortimer
40 books1,453 followersAKA James Forrester.
Dr Ian Mortimer is a historian and novelist, best known for his Time Traveller's Guides series. He has BA, MA, PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter and UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was awarded the Alexander Prize by the Royal Historical Society in 2004. Home is the small Dartmoor town of Moretonhampstead, which he occasioanlly introduces in his books. His most recet book, 'Medieval Horizons' looks at how life changed between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.
He also writes in other genres: his fourth novel 'The Outcasts of Time' won the 2018 Winston Graham Prize for historical fiction. His earlier trilogy of novels set in the 1560s were published under his middle names, James Forrester. In 2017 he wrote 'Why Running Matters' - a memoir of running in the year he turned fifty.
At present he is concentrating on writing history books that have experimental perspectives on the past. One example is a study of England as it would have appeared to the people living in his house over the last thousand years. This is provisionally entitled 'The History of England through the Windows of an Ordinary House'. It is due for completion in December 2024 and publication in 2026.
Dr Ian Mortimer is a historian and novelist, best known for his Time Traveller's Guides series. He has BA, MA, PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter and UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was awarded the Alexander Prize by the Royal Historical Society in 2004. Home is the small Dartmoor town of Moretonhampstead, which he occasioanlly introduces in his books. His most recet book, 'Medieval Horizons' looks at how life changed between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.
He also writes in other genres: his fourth novel 'The Outcasts of Time' won the 2018 Winston Graham Prize for historical fiction. His earlier trilogy of novels set in the 1560s were published under his middle names, James Forrester. In 2017 he wrote 'Why Running Matters' - a memoir of running in the year he turned fifty.
At present he is concentrating on writing history books that have experimental perspectives on the past. One example is a study of England as it would have appeared to the people living in his house over the last thousand years. This is provisionally entitled 'The History of England through the Windows of an Ordinary House'. It is due for completion in December 2024 and publication in 2026.
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