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Book Review of The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
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One of the best books I've read in quite a while. It is organized around the Julius Work Calendar, and discusses a different activity in normal life every month. The authors acknowledge that there is not a lot of information out there about how life was like in 1000, so a lot of there information is in the years before and after 1000. There's a fair amount on the Y1K problem, since the book was written in 1999, when Y2K was looming.