The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.
Imagine you could get into a time machine & travel back to the fourteenth century. 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 guesthouse? & 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 is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative & entertaining in its detail, & startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance & fear.
BRAIN SHOTS: the byte-sized guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages