The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World Paperback - 2000
by Robert Lacey; Danny Danziger
How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another?"The Year 1000" plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them with a historically accurate portrait of life on the cusp of the first millennium.
First line
IT WAS AN OAK TREE THAT PROVIDED THE ink, from a boil-like pimple growing out of its bark.
From the rear cover
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. 124The first millennium's Bill Gates, p. 192
How dolphins forecasted weather, p. 140The recipe for a medieval form of Viagra, p. 126
Body parts a married woman had to forfeit if she committed adultery, p. 171The fundamental rules of warfare, p. 154
How fried and crushed black snails could improve your health, p. 127And much more...
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- Title The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World
- Author Robert Lacey; Danny Danziger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition unknown
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-04-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780316511575 / 0316511579
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.66 x 0.68 in (20.88 x 14.38 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects England - Social life and customs - To 1066, One thousand, A.D
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98031254
- Dewey Decimal Code 942.01
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