How to Slay a Dragon, Cait Stevenson
How to Slay a Dragon, Cait Stevenson
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How to Slay a Dragon
A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages

Author: Cait Stevenson

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/30/2021

Synopsis

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 clichés 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.

About Cait Stevenson

Cait Stevenson earned her PhD in medieval history from the University of Notre Dame. She concentrates on breaking down the hierarchy and barriers between 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 seventeenth-century children playing with toy guns said their equivalent of “pew, pew, pew.” She is proud to live and work in St. Louis, Missouri.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on January 02, 2022

How to Slay a Dragon is a humorous look at medieval history with a running, stand up-esque commentary by a nameless narrator. "...this is still a book to guide heroes who are setting off to slay a dragon, steal the throne, and defeat a few hordes of supernaturally evil creatures along the way." pg xv......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 17, 2021

So, you're the chosen one and it's the middle ages. Not just medieval flavored. But actual medieval period. What can you do? Who are the counterparts you can relate to? Where can you go for help? Because, look, you're not gonna slay the Dragon all by yourself without knowing what you're getting into......more

Goodreads review by Christine on September 18, 2021

I enjoyed this one a lot! I'll definitely be directing folks to this when they talk about fantasy not being "realistic" in the future.......more

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