The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

Name: The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
Brand: Little Brown USA
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By Robert Lacey

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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 ...

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2000-04-01
Publication Date:: 2000-04-01
Publisher:: Little Brown USA
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0316511579
ISBN13:: 9780316511575
Weight:: 270 g
Height:: 21 cm
Width:: 14 cm
Thickness:: 1.8 cm

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