The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year

Description

In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Viking adventures in which fear was real and death a constant companion. People felt they walked hand-in-hand with God, and envisaged him so literally that even Christians were sometimes buried with supplies for the journey to the new life in heaven. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book presents a recreation of English life at the end of the first millennium AD.

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 Robert Lacey, of COVER magazine.

* '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