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The Timetraveller's Guide to Medieval London - Couverture souple

Kidney, Christine

 
9781904153085: The Timetraveller's Guide to Medieval London
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1904153089 ISBN 13 : 9781904153085
Editeur : Watling St Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

One of a series of books that will transport the reader to different eras of London's history. You will experience the sights (some pretty, most ugly), the smells (some fragrant, most offensive) and lives (some successful, most tragic) of its inhabitants through the ages. All contain quizzes and other interactive features, plus listings of relevant places to visit and things to do, and will prove both highly entertaining for their readers and invaluable for schools. Here are just some of the topics that this book will cover: The stinking streets and hovel houses; Choice medieval diseases - plague, smallpox, leprosy - and how to get them; Rotten rulers and gruesome tortures; A day in the life of a London serf; The real Dick Whittington; Richard III and the princes in the Tower; The creepy clergy and naughty nuns; Hotel rates at the Bloody Tower; Streamline lavatories and the new hygienic sewerage systems (only kidding!); Petty crimes and savage punishments Famine, the Black Death, impossible taxes, open sewers in the middle of the streets, livestock in your living room and criminal kings are just some of the pleasures of the city at its smelliest and vilest moment.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

One of a series of books that will transport the reader to different eras of London's history. You will experience the sights (some pretty, most ugly), the smells (some fragrant, most offensive) and lives (some successful, most tragic) of its inhabitants through the ages. All contain quizzes and other interactive features, plus listings of relevant places to visit and things to do, and will prove both highly entertaining for their readers and invaluable for schools. Here are just some of the topics that this book will cover: The stinking streets and hovel houses; Choice medieval diseases - plague, smallpox, leprosy - and how to get them; Rotten rulers and gruesome tortures; A day in the life of a London serf; The real Dick Whittington; Richard III and the princes in the Tower; The creepy clergy and naughty nuns; Hotel rates at the Bloody Tower; Streamline lavatories and the new hygienic sewerage systems (only kidding!); Petty crimes and savage punishments Famine, the Black Death, impossible taxes, open sewers in the middle of the streets, livestock in your living room and criminal kings are just some of the pleasures of the city at its smelliest and vilest moment.

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Éditeur
Watling St Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1904153089
ISBN 13 
9781904153085
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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