The Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Started reading The Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England because it was the chosen group read for the last quarter in one of my group books (historical non-fiction) on Shelfari. I’m trying to catch up so that I can post on the discussion board for the read before its been too long so I’m trying to get it done in a week. So far I’m on schedule at 50 pages a day but now that the school week has started I may fall of the wagon.
Anyways, onto the actual read….
I really like this. I had seen it at book stores and thought it was one of the regurgitated mass market histories that are for the casual historical fiction reader. This is fine, I have nothing against those and think there is definitely a need/market for them but that doesn’t mean I want to read it.
So I’m about a third of the way through and it is like reading an ethnography. By depicting the past in the present Mortimer has struck a very interesting balance between anthropology and history.
"It does not make the facts themselves less true to put them in the present tense rather than the past.”
Started reading The Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England because it was the chosen group read for the last quarter in one of my group books (historical non-fiction) on Shelfari. I’m trying to catch up so that I can post on the discussion board for the read before its been too long so I’m trying to get it done in a week. So far I’m on schedule at 50 pages a day but now that the school week has started I may fall of the wagon.
Anyways, onto the actual read….
I really like this. I had seen it at book stores and thought it was one of the regurgitated mass market histories that are for the casual historical fiction reader. This is fine, I have nothing against those and think there is definitely a need/market for them but that doesn’t mean I want to read it.
So I’m about a third of the way through and it is like reading an ethnography. By depicting the past in the present Mortimer has struck a very interesting balance between anthropology and history.
"It does not make the facts themselves less true to put them in the present tense rather than the past.”
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