Лучшие книги Яна Мортимера

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.

Представьте, что машина времени перенесла вас во времена Елизаветы I… Что вы видите? Как одеваетесь? Как зарабатываете на жизнь? Сколько вам платят? Что вы едите? 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.…

Декабрь 1348. Все вокруг под властью чумы, братья Джон и Уильям боятся, что они вскоре умрут и отправятся в ад гореть за свои грехи. Но когда им остается всего 6 дней до смерти, им дают неожиданный выбор: пойти домой и провести остаток жизни в знакомом мире, или же попробовать найти спасение в предстоящих веках, проживая каждый из оставшихся дней спустя девяносто девять лет после предыдущего.

Братья выбирают будущее и попадают во все более и более далекие и непонятные для них времена. Вместе с ними читатель переживет болезнь, прогресс, просвещение и войну. Но вот их время заканчивается – и смогут ли они найти свое искупление за столь короткий срок?

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…

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. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as the greatest king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship was perhaps the greatest that the world had ever known.
In this first full study of the man's character and life, Dr Ian Mortimer shows how Edward personally provided the impetus for much of the drama of his fifty-year reign. In particular he shows how Edward did more than any other monarch before or since to create the English nation as we know it today. Edward overcame the tyranny of his guardians at the age of seventeen,and then set about developing a new form of awe-inspiring chivalric kingship. Under him the feudal kingdom of England became a highly organised, sophisticated nation, capable of raising large revenues and deploying a new type of projectile-based warfare, and without question the most important military nation in Europe. Yet under his rule England itself experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the middle ages, giving rise to a massive increase of the nation's wealth through the wool trade, with huge consequences for society, art and architecture. It is also to Edward that we owe our system of parliamentary representation, our local justice system, our national flag and the English language as the 'tongue of the nation'
All this leads us to wonder why he is normally overlooked in a list of England's greatest kings. The answer is simple: nineteenth century historians saw in him the opportunity to decry a warmonger, and painted himas a self-seeking, rapacious, tax-gathering conquerer. Yet as this book shows, beneath the strong warrior king was a compassionate, conscientious and often merciful man, resolute yet devoted to his wife, friends and family. Through his personal relationships, he emerges as a strikingly modern figure, to whom many will be able to relate. That is not surprising, as the majority of Englishmen alive today are descended from him. He is therefore a father of both the English nation and the English people, and consequently stands alongside William I as one of the two most important medieval figures in the history of England.

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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.

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.

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.

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.