The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780736680592 (0736680594)
Publish date: November 27th 2001
Publisher: Books on Tape
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.
5 years ago
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