{"product_id":"medieval-horizons-von-ian-mortimer","title":"Medieval Horizons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England \u003c\/i\u003erevealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ian Mortimer:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781529920802\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy the Middle Ages Matter\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781529920802","offer_id":47524966334789,"sku":"9781529920802","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ae0ee80d-8923-49c6-a2cb-70b6f0636d7e.jpg?v=1780545840","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/medieval-horizons-von-ian-mortimer","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}