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The Year 1000: An Englishman´s Year
Robert Lacey
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Description for The Year 1000: An Englishman´s Year
Paperback. * Vivid recreation of how English people lived a thousand years ago. * What life was like at the turn of the first Millennium. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170.
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 gossip 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 ... Read more
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 gossip 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349113067
SKU
V9780349113067
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Ref
99-50
About Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey is an internationally renowned historian and biographer. Danny Danziger is a journalist and interviewer for THE INDEPENDENT and SUNDAY TIMES magazine. He is co-founder, along with Lacey, of COVER magazine.
Reviews for The Year 1000: An Englishman´s Year
Thoroughly enjoyable ... a superb insight into life as it was lived a thousand years ago INDEPENDENT A brilliant little book, well-written, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written GLASGOW HERALD A series of deftly-turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millennium ... a ... Read more