Новинки Яна Мортимера

We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world.
We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.
Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас в четырнадцатый век...
Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? И где живете?
Автор книг, доктор исторических наук Ян Мортимер, раз и навсегда изменит ваш взгляд на средневековую Англию, показав, что историю можно изучить, окунувшись в нее и увидев все своими глазами.
Ежедневные хроники, письма, счета домашних хозяйств и стихи откроют для вас мир прошлого и ответят на вопросы, которые обычно игнорируются историками-традиционалистами. Вы узнаете, как приветствовать людей на улице, что использовалось в качестве туалетной бумаги, почему врач может попробовать вашу кровь на вкус и как не заразиться проказой.

This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality.
And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion.
This is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his time-travelling prowess.

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.
One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast, and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the Queen of England, who threw herself into his arms. A year later, as lovers, they returned with an invading army: King Edward II's forces crumbled before them, and Mortimer took power. He removed Edward II in the first deposition of a monarch in British history. Then the ex-king was apparently murdered, some said with a red-hot poker, in Berkeley Castle.
Brutal, intelligent, passionate, profligate, imaginative and violent: Sir Roger Mortimer was an extraordinary character. It is not surprising that the queen lost her heart to him. Nor is it surprising that his contemporaries were terrified of him. But until now no one has appreciated the full evil genius of the man. This first biography reveals not only the man's career as a feudal lord, a governor of Ireland, a rebel leader and a dictator of England but also the truth of what happened that night in Berkeley Castle.

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England.
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king.
Nineteenth century historians saw in Edward the opportunity to decry a warmonger, and painted him as a self-seeking, rapacious, tax-gathering conqueror. Yet, in this first full study of the King's character and life, Dr Ian Mortimer unveils that behind the strong warrior king was a compassionate, conscientious and often merciful man - resolute yet devoted to his wife, friends and family, and the father of both the English nation and the English people.

This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history -

В каком веке прошлого тысячелетия произошло больше всего значительных перемен? Какое событие спровоцировало наиболее долгоиграющие последствия: промышленная революция или изобретение интернета? Эта книга от доктора исторических наук, выдающегося исследователя Средневековья Яна Мортимера — временной трамплин по всей западной истории. Читая эту книгу, вы совершите путешествие по главным изобретениям, открытиям, революциям, столкновениям разных эпох и почувствуете темпы и масштабы глобальных перемен.

В каком веке прошлого тысячелетия произошло больше всего значительных перемен? Какое событие спровоцировало наиболее долгоиграющие последствия: промышленная революция или изобретение интернета? Эта книга от доктора исторических наук, выдающегося исследователя Средневековья Иана Мортимера - временной трамплин по всей западной истории. Читая эту книгу, вы совершите…

December 1348. What if you had just six days to save your soul?

With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and suffer in the afterlife. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries – living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last.

John and William choose the future and find themselves in 1447, ignorant of almost everything going on around them. The year 1546 brings no more comfort, and 1645 challenges them in further unexpected ways. It is not just that technology is changing: things they have taken for granted all their lives prove to be short-lived.

As they find themselves in stranger and stranger times, the reader travels with them, seeing the world through their eyes as it shifts through disease, progress, enlightenment, and war. But their time is running out—can they do something to redeem themselves before the six days are up?

У сучасному суспільстві майже щодня відбуваються суттєві зміни. А чи було так завжди? Чи можна якимось чином визначити, яке століття зазнало найбільших змін? Виявляється, що так. І це з блиском удалося чудовому англійському історику і письменнику Ієну Мортімеру, який ретельно, але водночас дуже цікаво описав і порівняв десять століть європейської історії. Виявляється, це дуже важливо для нас: адже, знаючи і розуміючи своє минуле, людство зможе більш упевнено спланувати майбутнє, яке може бути цілком щасливим.