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A review by readingpanda
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World by Danny Danziger, Robert Lacey
3.0
I finished a little nonfiction book I had laying around, The Year 1000.
It's about ... well, you already figured that out, I'm sure. Anyhow, it uses an illustrated calendar from the era to talk about what daily life was like. This is the sort of thing that I tend to wonder about when I'm reading about history - it's all fine and good to know what life was like for the noblemen, but what about the ordinary people? And not just the obvious answer of "short, dirty, and difficult," but the actual logistics of how things were done.
This was a very quick and easy read, and doesn't suffer too much from having been written in 1998 (a couple of references to the upcoming Y2K fears were the worst of it). It would be a perfect choice for someone who's moderately interested in times past, but not really into history.
It's about ... well, you already figured that out, I'm sure. Anyhow, it uses an illustrated calendar from the era to talk about what daily life was like. This is the sort of thing that I tend to wonder about when I'm reading about history - it's all fine and good to know what life was like for the noblemen, but what about the ordinary people? And not just the obvious answer of "short, dirty, and difficult," but the actual logistics of how things were done.
This was a very quick and easy read, and doesn't suffer too much from having been written in 1998 (a couple of references to the upcoming Y2K fears were the worst of it). It would be a perfect choice for someone who's moderately interested in times past, but not really into history.