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The Year 1000 :An Englishman's Year
The Year 1000 :An Englishman's Year
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25 September, 2003
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THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the occasional gossip columnist. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, Lacey and Danziger interviewed the leading historians and archaeologists in their field. In the year 1000 the changing seasons shaped a life that was, by our standards, both soothingly quiet and frighteningly hazardous - and if you survived, you could expect to grow to just about the same height and stature as anyone living today. This exuberant and informative book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England and Christendom, with prophets of doom invoking the spectre of the Anti-Christ. Here comes the abacus - the medieval calculating machine - along with bewildering new concepts like infinity and zero. These are portents of the future, and THE YEAR 1000 finishes by examining the human and social ingredients that were to make for survival and success in the next thousand years.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780349113067 |
| ISBN10 | 0349113068 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 170 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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Thoroughly enjoyable ... a superb insight into life as it was lived a thousand years ago INDEPENDENT A brilliant little book, well-written, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written GLASGOW HERALD A series of deftly-turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millennium ... a quirky and engaging book SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A beautiful window on past history. My book of the year Simon Schama
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Author's Bio
Robert Lacey is an internationally renowned historian and biographer. Danny Danziger is a journalist and interviewer for THE INDEPENDENT and SUNDAY TIMES magazine. He is co-founder, along with Lacey, of COVER magazine.