The Time Traveller's Guide to
Medieval England

A handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century

Imagine you could travel in time, back to the Middle Ages. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guest house? And what are you going to eat? What sort of food are you going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?

This radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. It shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. It sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you, the reader, to the Middle Ages, and showing you everything from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.