Ian Mortimer (historian) Quotes

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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 periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is—and always will be—ourselves.

Ian Mortimer

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

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 ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer

Born: September 22, 1967 (age 58)

Bio: Ian James Forrester Mortimer FRHistS is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010.

Known for:

The greatest traitor (2003)
The Fears of Henry IV (2007)

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