Overview
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.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 ...
The book, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780316511575 in Paperback by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04/01/2000
ISBN-10:
0316511579
ISBN-13:
9780316511575
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
