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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $9.99 (As of May 23, 05:40 PM) Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details)  • This book is on 5 myArmoury member lists • This book has 3 myArmoury member reviews
Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Hardcover, Hardcover 212 third-party copies available from: $0.01 (As of May 23, 05:40 PM) 
Other items of interest: • The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century • 1066: The Year of the Conquest • 1215: The Year of Magna Carta • The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games • Life in a Medieval City  Product Description: As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning... Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life was Like. How clothes were fastened in a world without buttons, p.10 The rudiments of medieval brain surgery, p.124 The first millennium's Bill Gates, p.192 How dolphins forecasted weather, p.140 The recipe for a medieval form of Viagra, p.126 Body parts a married woman had to forfeit if she committed adultery, p.171 The fundamental rules of warfare, p.154 How fried and crushed black snails could improve your health, p.127 And much more... Amazon.com Review: "August was the month when flies started to become a problem, buzzing round the dung heaps in the corner of every farmyard and hovering over the open cesspits of human refuse that were located outside every house." Although daily dangers were many, housing uncomfortable, and the dominant smells unpleasant indeed, life in England at the turn of the previous millennium was not at all bad, write journalists Lacey and Danziger. "If you were to meet an Englishman in the year 1000," they continue, "the first thing that would strike you would be how tall he was--very much the size of anyone alive today." The Anglo-Saxons were not only tall, but also generally well fed and healthy, more so than many Britons only a few generations ago. Writing in a breezy, often humorous style, Lacey and Danziger draw on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, to reconstruct the spirit and reality of the era. Light though their touch is, they've done their homework, and they take the reader on a well-documented and enjoyable month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society. Readers should find the authors' discussions of famine and plague a refreshing break from present-day millennial worries, and a very stimulating introduction to medieval English history. --Gregory McNamee Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Robert Lacey Danny Danziger Recording label: Back Bay Books Publishers: Back Bay Books Manufacturer: Back Bay Books EAN: 9780316511575 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316511575 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 240 Publication date: 2000-04-01 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: May 23, 2013 05:40 PM (GMT -8 hours) |
