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