The Timetraveller's Guide to Medieval London

by Christine Kidney, Mark Davis (Illustrator), Watling Street Publishing (Manufactured by)

Overview

It’s all here:

• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904153085
Publisher:	Salt Way Publishing
Publication date:	04/28/2004
Series:	Timetraveller's Guide Series
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
1	The Streets	9
2	London Life	29
3	Holy Days	45
4	The Miasmic Metropolis	61
5	Holy Smoke	67
6	Crime and Punishment	77
	Places to Visit	93