As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and w… - Ian Mortimer
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and w…
- Ian Mortimer
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for peri… - Ian Mortimer
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for peri…
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignor… - Ian Mortimer
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignor…
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. - Ian Mortimer
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.
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