The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2003-9-1 Pages: 230 Publisher: Little Brown In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians. monks. warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared anapocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyondthe nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Vikingadventures in which fear was real and death a constant companion.People felt they walked hand-in-hand with God. and envisaged him soliterally that even Christians were sometimes buried with suppliesfor the journey to the new life in heaven. Narrated through theprogression of the seasons. this book presents a recreation ofEnglish life at the end of the first millennium AD.