How to Slay a Dragon
A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages
Will be published approx. on 14. October 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-9821-6411-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
2-c; 10 illustrations thru-out
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
315 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-6411-9 (9781982164119)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
08/2021
1st Edition
Simon Element
€10.87
Available for download
Person
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.