The Year 1000 - What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World (Paperback, 1st Back Bay pbk. ed)

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

• The belongings and body parts a married woman must forfeit if she committed adultery, p. 171

• The fundamental rules of warfare, p. 154

• What the hieroglyphics on English coins revealed, p. 68

• How fried and crushed black snails could improve your health, p. 127

• Omens of a turn-of-the-millennium apocalypse, p. 184
and much more....

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