The time traveler's guide to medieval England
by Ian Mortimer · first published 2008
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I'd also recommend "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century" by Ian Mortimer.
on “Manners in Early Modern England” ↗See also the book The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2011) by Ian Mortimer.
on “Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe” ↗Not specifically about kings but — I recommend The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, for a very thorough look at daily life in this era. More specifically about kings, ACoUP has a great writeup [0] on royal legitimacy and the various purposes of the king's court in the…
on “The daily life of a medieval king” ↗Germany was not unique in this. From Ian Mortimer's book The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: "There are considerable complexities attached to other measures. It is not so much that they vary as they may be differently interpreted, according to what you are trying to measure. A foot in length…
on “Obsolete German Units of Measurement” ↗…microscopes. Paul Nahin - The Logician and the Engineer. About Boole and Shannon's work; I had already learned the material so i skimmed part of it and returned it to the library. Ian Mortimer - The time traveler's guide to medieval england. Talks about what daily life was like for different social classes in 14th century England eg towns & cities, food, clothes, housing, employment, travel etc. I got about halfway through and lost interest…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗