The year 1000 : what life was like at the turn of the first millennium : an Englishman's world / Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger.
By: Lacey, Robert
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Contributor(s): Danziger, Danny.
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BookPublisher: London : Abacus, 2003Description: 240 p. ; 20cm.ISBN: 0349113068 (pbk); 9780349113067.Subject(s): One thousand, A.D | History | History | Children's / Teenage general interest: History & the past | England | c 1000 CE to c 1500 | Educational: History | Social & cultural history | General & world history | Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066DDC classification: 909.07 LAC Summary: In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery with searching magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book realises an alien world, making it as immediate as the year 2000.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 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.
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 1999.
Includes index.
Bibliography.
In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery with searching magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book realises an alien world, making it as immediate as the year 2000.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Robert Lacey was born in Guilford, Surrey, England on January 3, 1944. He earned a B.A. in 1967, a diploma of education in 1967, and an M.A. in 1970, all from Selwyn College, Cambridge.Lacey began his writing career as a journalist, working for the Illustrated London News and later the Sunday Times magazine. While working for the latter, he also began writing biographies; his books about Robert, Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh led to a commission to write a history of Queen Elizabeth's reign, to be published during her silver jubilee. Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor became an international bestseller, and established Lacey's reputation as a biographer who treated his subjects accurately and fairly.
Lacey is a thorough researcher who has often gone to great lengths to immerse himself in the background of the people he writes about. He moved to the Middle East and even learned Arabic while doing research for The Kingdom, a biography of Saudi Arabia's first ruler, Abdul Aziz Sa'ud. And when writing Ford: The Man and the Machine, about Henry Ford, he relocated to Michigan and worked for a time on the assembly line in an auto plant. He is also the author of Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, The Queen of the North Atlantic, The Life and Times of Henry the VIII, God Bless Her!, and Princess, a pictorial biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Robert Lacey married Alexandre Avrach, a graphic designer, in 1971. They have three children, Sasha, Scarlett, and Bruno.
(Bowker Author Biography)