The Year 1000
What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First MillenniumFull 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.
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Critical Praise
"Thoroughly readable...fascinating snippets abound."
--Don Gregory, Providence Journal
"An astonishing amount of information in 200 pages. It's hard to imagine a better executed, easier-to-digest primer on the social, political, and religious life of the age."
--Theo Spencer, Salon
"The rich details in The Year 1000 should delight Anglophiles and armchair medievalists."
--Rachel Emma Silverman, Wall Street Journal
- Category:
- HISTORY
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 4/1/2000
- Price:
- $13.99/$18.99
- ISBN:
- 9780316511575
- Pages:
- 240
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
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