How to Slay a Dragon

A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages

By: Cait Stevenson

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

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.

©2021 Caitlin Stevenson (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

A fun approach to history

This was a very fun look into medieval history using typical fantasy tropes as a guide.

I like the premise of the book but not the result.

I bought this book for the premise. as a non historian whose played plenty of fantasy games, in video game form and in playground form. I thought this would be another light hearted adventure. unfortunately the author appears to me to be preaching modern day morals to a chior of modern people at the expense of the people's of the past. the moralization reveals the authors political bias, and taints the fun I think this book has to offer. though it in many cases this still shines through. if having a laugh at the people who have different morals and ways of life to you simply by reason of their birth circumstance, and year, is something you enjoy. this I would suggest is a worthy title.

Misleading

This book is less about fantasy and mostly about religion and following it's history. Way more boring than it led on. Good narration.