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The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium Paperback - 2000
by Danny Danziger; Robert Lacey
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another?"The Year 1000" plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them with a historically accurate portrait of life on the cusp of the first millennium.
Description
Details
- Title The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
- Author Danny Danziger; Robert Lacey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition unknown
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0316511579I3N00
- ISBN 9780316511575 / 0316511579
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.66 x 0.68 in (20.88 x 14.38 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects England - Social life and customs - To 1066, One thousand, A.D
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98031254
- Dewey Decimal Code 942.01
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First line
From the rear cover
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...