{"product_id":"medieval-horizons-why-the-middle-ages-matter","title":"Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science and technological innovation, and that it was the inventions of recent centuries which created the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating introduction to the Middle Ages, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. All aspects of life were utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as Ian Mortimer's bestselling \u003ci\u003eTime 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 period 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 era, of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Geographic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781847927446\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"National Geographic Books","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £6.29","offer_id":47917874610353,"sku":"SB-1847927440-C4","price":6.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1847927440.jpg?v=1789621953","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/medieval-horizons-why-the-middle-ages-matter","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}