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Have you read The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer (2008)?

yes

no

I've read parts of it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onApr 14

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Title: The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England | Author: Ian Mortimer | Publisher: Viking (2013)

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Current reads: history and middle grade horror

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Started The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England today and have a newfound appreciation for sewage systems

Also, in the 1300s, London was apparently infested with rats, dogs, and pigs! Very charmed by the thought of hearing a trash can being knocked over and running outside to shoo off a pig!

#text #ian mortimer #why can't we have pig infestations #wouldn't mind the rats either

What's the tea on Ian mortimer? What are his crazy takes? Where do I begin?? @qqueenofhades has discussed his issues as a historian a few ti

@heartofstanding I can't tell if there's a readmore on this so let me just make a new post since this is so long already.

A few thoughts I have:

Mortimer, why must guys like you make my goal of being an approachable and accessible historian harder. I just want historical education to be more open and less intimidating. I also want to be, you know, a respectable historian. You're making me look bad.

I'm really stuck on the idea that Richard would have possibly killed Hal. Which. No. There's plenty of evidence that Richard liked Hal and treated him well, regardless of what Hal's father was doing (Also if Henry thought Hal was in any danger, wouldn't he have tried to get him back?). It's a lot like how Kathryn Warner said it was unkind to Isabelle when Richard dismissed her governess (who was by many accounts not a good governess and was embezzling funds) and some of her staff-- Richard wasn't trying to hurt Isabelle and it's clearly noted that Richard treated her as his daughter. He called her his very dear companion and little sister! But noooo, he was totally capable of hurting the children in his care because there's no way he could have been a good adoptive father.

Also Mortimer, from the very concept of a biography from Henry IV's perspective, falls into the "If I Were A Horse" fallacy. Like dude. Trying to portray how a person felt/experienced things just turns you into a potential horse. Read Evans-Pritchard.

I have so many thoughts about Mortimer and his interpretations I could be here all day.

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Typography Tuesday

WOOD TYPE FROM I. M. IMPRIMIT

This week we present two wood-type broadsides printed by Ian Mortimer, artist, designer, printer, and proprietor of I. M. Imprimit in London. The top poster was printed for the very first issue of Matrix in 1981 and displays twelve of the more decorative typefaces from the collection at I. M. Imprimit. It demonstrates the range of widths, weights, and sizes that poster and job printers frequently stocked. The next broadside was printed for inclusion in Matrix 2 of 1982 and shows the range of so-called “Antiques” to offer an idea of the diversity of appearance that could be manifested in a single type style.

The “Antique” was first shown and named by London typefounder Vincent Figgins in his specimen book of 1815, and by 1820 versions were known as “Egyptian Antique.” The basic style is characterized by square-cut slab serifs, which in the so-called “French Antique” became thicker and heavier than the main strokes. This particular specimen displays both Egyptian and French Antiques in bold and light versions of normal, elongated, and expanded styles.

Mortimer notes that: