The Year 1000 What Life was Like at the
Turn of the First Millennium – An Englishman's World —by Robert
Lacey & Danny Danziger
Nonfiction / History, England
240 pages
5 Stars
I truly enjoyed this book. It is not a detailed history, but
more a 'History Lite,' of the times and people in the year 1000 in Engla-lond.
Based on the Julius Work Calendar, it describes what went on in daily life
month by month.
The authors are not historians, but rather journalists who
did their homework. Perhaps that is why it is so readable.
The weather was considerably warmer, certain foods were
available then, several common ones did not come on the scene for a few hundred
years. Many towns and or villages were named with a suffix showing their origin
as either English or Norse, and were often interspersed. The towns today carry
the same names. Macbeth was a real king who also had better luck of keeping the
Vikings out of Scotland than the English had of keeping them out of England.
Armies and battles were to be avoided at all costs, and when
they could not be avoided, were relatively quiet. The farmer just a couple
miles away would have been totally unaware of it and gone about his business.
Buttons did not yet exist but rudimentary brain surgery did.
Dolphins acted as weather forecasters, at least on the coast and there was a
recipe for Viagra that long ago;-)
If you want lots of dates and details and facts, just the
facts, try another book by an Historian. If you want an enjoyable read with
some interesting details, try this one, you'll like it.
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