An author with a strong track record now tackles the turbulent reign of Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time
Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's
Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed
medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects
ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998.
His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize
(2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009.
He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on
the edge of Dartmoor.
[Mortimer] has an instinctive sympathy for the men about whom he
writes, a real understanding of the mentalities of late medieval
England, and a vivid historical imagination which lends colour and
excitement to his pages
*Literary Review*
Mortimer's book is a success and tells an important story very
well
*Daily Telegraph*
An arresting and original biography
*Sunday Telegraph*
[It] possesses the rare combination of clarity, liveliness,
balanced judgement, erudition without pedantry, and scholarship
founded on his own research among primary sources
*Scotland on Sunday*
The book is at its most compelling in conjuring a sense of place or
occasion
*Guardian*
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