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Cargando... The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (1999)por Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This entertaining and well-written book givees a real feel for every day life at the turn of the first millennium. Approached with a very light touch, the authors touch on the daily life and concerns of all sections of the population, whether hand-to-mouth villagers, men and women of God, soldiers or nobility. Their day-to-day problems and joys, their concerns for the future are all touched on the give a vivid portrait of life 1000 years ago. It's not a scholarly book, but one which is easily read in the course of a day , whetting the appetite for more. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 group 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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