The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World - Paperback

by Robert Lacey (Author), Danny Danziger (Author)

A colorful, illuminating, and accurate survey of life in Christendom in 1000 AD reveals how various people viewed the close of a thousand years, how they envisioned the next millennium, and what their daily lives were like.

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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...