The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
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.AS THE SHADOW OF THE MILLENNIUM DESCENDED ACROSS ENGLAND...
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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.AS THE SHADOW OF THE MILLENNIUM DESCENDED ACROSS ENGLAND AND CHRISTENDOM, IT SEEMED AS IF THE WORLD WAS ABOUT TO END. ACTUALLY, IT WAS ON
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ASIN: B001JKV914
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
One of two books I remember reading in honor of the millennium; the other was Stephen Jay Gould's Questioning the Millennium. So one look back and one look forward. The look back was fascinating. Although I know more about the history of the British isles than any place outside the US it remains imp...
As I said above, this book was quite fun to read. It was an interesting angle to use archaeological evidence and historic documentation to extrapolate an ethnography of the early English people. The division of the chapters to reflect aspect of culture based on what the common man of the day would h...
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Quick, skimmy overview. Highlight is the smutty riddles.
If you like social history, I think The Year 1000 deserves to be a general reader's classic.
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