The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

A vivid & surprising portrait of life in England 1,000 years ago. Uncovering wonderfully unexpected details, the authors bring this distant world closer than it has ever been before. Their research led them to an ancient & little-known document of the period, the Julius Work Calendar, a sharply observed guide which takes us back in time to a charming & very human world of kings & revelers, saints & slave-laborers, lingering paganism & profound Christian faith. The book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England & Christendom. AD 1000 sees the arrival of such bewildering concepts as infinity & zero, along with the abacus.Robert Lacey is the author of 'The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium' with ISBN 9780788199189 and ISBN 0788199188.