Download The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699 AudioBook Free
Imagine you may start to see the smiles of the folks talked about in Samuel Pepys' journal, listen to the shouts of market merchants, and touch their wares. How can you find your way around? Where would you stay? What can you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be pleasant? This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of Ruler Charles II in 1660 and the finish of the hundred years. The past witch is sentenced to death just 2 yrs before Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern research, is published. Religion still has a severe grasp on society yet some - including the king - flout every moral convention they can find. There are excellent fires in London and Edinburgh; the plague disappears; a worldwide trading empire grows. Of these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and changed by a tremendous cultural flowering. Why are half the folks you meet under age 21? What's considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? Ian Mortimer delves in to the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and in depth picture of culture at the dawn of today's world as only they can.
