Time Traveler's Guide To Elizabethan England Summary

Mortimer's work, Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England , was written as a travel guide for the time traveler. Mortimer used the concept of time travel to achieve many things. He visits a time era from the past and compares it to our modern ideas. By applying the concept of time travel to tell a story; he makes it a unique and thought provoking read. Mortimer takes common misconceptions head on and gives an in-depth analysis of life in Elizabethan England.these range from the politics of the era to the bad smells Elizabethans were tolerant of.
The book opens up as if you're walking through Elizabethan England sightseeing, walking on the streets. The book reads as if Mortimer is a travel guide, explaining the sight on your left, or

Not only does he describe what they are, but he goes into great detail of why they have these views. He analyzes propaganda, Shakespearean literature, and even theater. He doesn't just explain that they don't bathe often, but why they didn't bathe often (it's because they thought water carried pathogens and they would get water in their “crevices” and get sick).
Disease is deeply analyzed in the book, from how it is spread to those who get sick and don't get sick. A subject he went into great detail with was syphilis. The people of England bathed at monasteries, but because henry VIII shut down the monasteries, people had to find somewhere else to bathe. So “ladies of the night” offered baths for people, sometimes with extra sexual acts and hence the spread of syphilis began. Although the subject of a sexually transmitted disease is offputting, it was a common aspect of life for the Elizabethans, it goes to show Mortimer spares no detail on the topic.
Another topic Mortimer touches on was a daily struggle for the working class woman. For example, something that would often happen is servants would get raped then accused of the sin of fornication. Yet, Mortimer writes of how the queen was often found in her undergarments when male royalty was