TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lacey, Robert,
AU  - Danziger, Danny.
TI  - The year 1000: what life was like at the turn of the first millennium : an Englishman's world 
SN  - 0316643750
AV  - DA152.2 .L33 1999
U1  - 909.07 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - One thousand, A.D
KW  - England
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - To 1066
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Ethelred II, 979-1016
N1  - Met lit. opg., index
N2  - 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 group 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 to just about the same height and stature as anyone living today. This exuberant and informative book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England and Christendom, with prophets of doom invoking the spectre of the Anti-Christ. Here comes the abacus - the medieval calculating machine - along with bewildering new concepts like infinity and zero. These are portents of the future, and THE YEAR 1000 finishes by examining the human and social ingredients that were to make for survival and success in the next thousand years.- Google Books
ER  -