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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 HERALD )
A 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 TELEGRAPH )
A beautiful window on past history. My book of the year (Simon Schama )
A brilliant little book, well-written, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written (GLASGOW HERALD )
A 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 TELEGRAPH )
A beautiful window on past history. My book of the year (Simon Schama )
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'A brilliant little book, wellwritten, knowledgeable, insightful, accessible, a model of how popular social history should be written'
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The Year 1000,
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This review is from: The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year (Paperback)
Readable, entertaining, informative, surprising and lively. This book is like no other I have read on pre-Conquest England. While most books deal rather dryly with thegns and eaoldermen and the coming of Christianity, this book focuses on what life would have been like for the ordinary man and woman of the time. It is full of illumnating anecdotes about such things as the various types of worm people might have in their guts and the process of minting a silver penny - and what happened to you if you were found to be forging them - not a happy fate. It offers insights into the life of the monk and nun - and tells you where their ink came from to copy their devotional texts. It gives a powerful impression of how life could be very rich, or almost unbearable in times of famine. It deals with diet, religious beliefs, work and labour, slavery and bondage, the legal system, women, the class system, the economy, medicine, paganism, town and country life, battle and war, and all this in a fresh and lively manner. The authors make liberal use of sources to illustrate their topic, to great effect. This text is not written by academics, but it is a very useful insight into the world of 'real' men and women. Highly recommended.
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Very readable,
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This review is from: The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year (Paperback)
A really very readable account of everyday life around the turn of the first millenium AD (with the odd bit of political history thrown in here and there). You really don't need any background knowledge to enjoy this, and it's written from the point of view of human interest rather than with any dry academic aims. Very enjoyable.
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Very interesting insight into how was life 1000 years ago,
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If you have any interest in history, this is a compelling little book that you might find very enlightening. It gave me a whole new perspective on life 1000 years ago - the difficulties to feed the population, the tools, the relationships, the laws, all explained at a high level, based on the scarce documentation available from those days.
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