Question

What was more meteors style in the time travelers guide to Elizabethan England

Answer 1

Fresh from his acclaimed tour through 14th-century England, Ian Mortimer travels forward 200 years in his time machine. Setting us down in the reign of Elizabeth I, he aims to recreate, as he puts it, "the reality of the past", to help the reader understand more vividly the doubts, hopes, customs and practices of daily Elizabethan life. His choice of age is a shrewd one: as well as being populated by instantly recognisable individuals – Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake and "Gloriana" herself – it is a world in many respects distanced from that of his previous book. In the late 16th century people understood the world differently and, thanks in no small part to Elizabeth's religious settlement of 1559, they understood God differently too.