'Ian Mortimer has virtually single-handedly put medieval history back in the hands of ordinary readers, combining scrupulous research with a wonderfully iconoclastic approach to storytelling.'
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)

'A narrative historian of exceptional gifts.'
Professor Paul Strohm, Columbia University (BBC History)

'The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time.'
Christina Hardyment (The Times)