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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger
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Read from January 01, 2010 to December 16, 2014
Read by Derek Jacobi
Description: As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning... Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life was Like. How clothes were fastened in a world without buttons, p.10 The rudiments of medieval brain surgery, p.124 The first millennium's Bill Gates, p.192 How dolphins forecasted weather, p.140 The recipe for a medieval form of Viagra, p.126 Body parts a married woman had to forfeit if she committed adultery, p.171 The fundamental rules of warfare, p.154 How fried and crushed black snails could improve your health, p.127 And much more...
Ēostre = Easter: a Germanic divinity who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name (Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth), is the namesake of the festival of Easter. Ēostre is attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in Eostre's honor, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.
Breugel the Elder shows us the effect of Crazy Bread
'A Swarm of Bees'
Usually when I put on an audio file it is the assumption that other jobs can be done at the same time. Not with this! I sat enthralled, even my legs unwittingly became numb with pins and needles. Good travelling fayre? ... ooooh yeah!Set out snippet style, this truly is engrossing even if you have encountered the individual infos before. Highly recommended, especially with Cadfael as narrator!
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