![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, Lacey and Danziger interviewed the leading historians and archaeologists in their field. 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. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book presents a recreation of English life at the end of the first millennium AD. In the year 1000 the world was one of people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. Subtitled : What was life like at the turn of the First Millennium. ![]()
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