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Book 06/2020: Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger, The Year 1000. What Life Was Like At The Turn Of The First Millenium
This book had been on my wishlist for years before my husband finally bought it last year. It was originally published around the end of the second millenium. The main framework is the Julius Work Calendar with its twelve monthly chapters. The book uses its illustrations and monthly structure to describe the typical life of the English people around the turn of the first millenium.
To be honest, when I first put it on my wishlist, I thought that it would cover more than just England, and maybe Europe or even the world in general. But it's fine. This way, I get more details, and some of them can be fairly easily transcribed onto other European countries, e.g. the existence of the "hungry gap" in July. That was the period when last year's supplies had been consumed but the new crops haven't been harvested yet.
I learned more things that I hadn't previously known, but I don't want to get into details here. It was an interesting book to read, and for now I'll also keep it (I think I have to clean my shelves a bit again).
This book had been on my wishlist for years before my husband finally bought it last year. It was originally published around the end of the second millenium. The main framework is the Julius Work Calendar with its twelve monthly chapters. The book uses its illustrations and monthly structure to describe the typical life of the English people around the turn of the first millenium.
To be honest, when I first put it on my wishlist, I thought that it would cover more than just England, and maybe Europe or even the world in general. But it's fine. This way, I get more details, and some of them can be fairly easily transcribed onto other European countries, e.g. the existence of the "hungry gap" in July. That was the period when last year's supplies had been consumed but the new crops haven't been harvested yet.
I learned more things that I hadn't previously known, but I don't want to get into details here. It was an interesting book to read, and for now I'll also keep it (I think I have to clean my shelves a bit again).
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