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The Year 1000 de Robert Lacey

The Year 1000

Autor Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2000
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.171 The fundamental rules of warfare, p.154 How fried and crushed black snails could improve your health, p.127 And much more...
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316511575
ISBN-10: 0316511579
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:BACK BAY PBK.
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

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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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Thoroughly enjoyable ... a superb insight into life as it was lived a thousand years ago
A brilliant little book, well-written, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written
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
A beautiful window on past history. My book of the year