The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger -
$4
The Year 1000 is a vivid and surprising portrait of
life in England a thousand years ago – no spinach, no sugar, but a world which
already knew brains surgeons and property developers and even the occasional
gossip columnist.
Can you imagine the medieval equivalent of super
glue and Viagra? How monks communicated when they weren’t allowed to speak?
Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger’s fascination book is packed with such
unexpected details. Both an
entertaining and highly informative read, THE YEAR 1000, brilliantly brings
this distant world closer than it has ever been before.
Softcover, copyright 1999. Good condition, spine a little scuffed.
Total weight: 128g