The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
Lacey, Robert; Danziger, Danny
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2000
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- Title
- The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
- Author
- Lacey, Robert; Danziger, Danny
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Paperbacks
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0316511579
- ISBN 13
- 9780316511575
- Item weight
- 0.92 pounds
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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From the Back 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...
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