The Year 1000
an englishman's year
$25.60
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2000
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113067 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349113068 |
| Author: | Danny Danziger, Robert Lacey |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Thoroughly enjoyable … a superb insight into life as it was lived a thousand years ago - INDEPENDENT
A brilliant little book, well-written, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written - GLASGOW HERALDA series of deftly-turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millennium … a quirky and engaging book - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA beautiful window on past history. My book of the year - Simon SchamaAbout The Author
Danny Danziger
Robert Lacey is an internationally renowned historian and biographer.
Danny Danziger is a journalist and interviewer for THE INDEPENDENT and SUNDAY TIMES magazine. He is co-founder, along with Lacey, of COVER magazine.
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