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The Year 1000

What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

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By Robert Lacey

By Danny Danziger

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On Sale
Apr 1, 2000
Page Count
240 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316511575

Price

$18.99

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$24.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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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…

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • History
  • Europe
  • Great Britain
  • General

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Robert Lacey

About the Author

Robert Lacey is the coauthor of The Year 1000 and the author of such bestselling books as Majesty, The Kingdom, and The Queen Mother’s Century. He lives in London.

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Danny Danziger

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