How to Slay a Dragon

A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages

How to Slay a Dragon
Cait Stevenson
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NZ$ 35.00
Hardback
h191 x 140mm - 224pg
30 Sep 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781982164119
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Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests. What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried treasure? Fantasy media' s favorite cliches get new life from How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero' s Guide to the Real Middle Ages, a historically accurate romp through the medieval world. Each entry presents a trope from video games, books, movies, or TV-such as saving the princess or training a wizard-as a problem for you to solve, as if you were the hero of your own fantasy quest. Through facts sourced from a rich foundation of medieval sources, you will learn how your magical problems were solved by people in the actual Middle Ages. Divided into thematic subsections based on typical stages in a fantastical epic, and inclusive of race, gender, and continent, How to Slay a Dragon is perfect if you' re curious to learn more about the time period that inspired some of your favorite magical worlds or longing to know what it would be like to be the hero of your own mythical adventure.
Cait Stevenson earned her PhD in medieval history from the University of Notre Dame. She concentrates on breaking down the barriers and hierarchy among academic and popular history. As @SunAgainstGold, she moderates AskHistorians, the internet' s largest public history forum, where she also writes on topics ranging from medieval inheritance laws to whether 17th-century children playing with toy guns said their equivalent of "Pew, pew, pew. " She is proud to live and work in St. Louis, Missouri.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781982164119
Published: 30 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardback
Height: 191mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 16mm
Pages: 224

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