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Danny Danziger

    The Year 1000
    1215 : The Year of Magna Carta
    The Year 1000
    Museum
    • Museum

      Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

      • 304 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      The book offers a captivating oral history that delves into the lives and experiences of the individuals connected to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through a collection of personal anecdotes and reflections, it paints a vivid picture of the museum's culture and the diverse personalities that contribute to its legacy. Readers gain insight into the behind-the-scenes stories that shape the institution, highlighting the passion and dedication of those who work to preserve and present art to the public.

      Museum2007
      3,8
    • 1215 : The Year of Magna Carta

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Broad in scope and rich in detail, 1215: THE YEAR OF MAGNA CARTA is a vivid exploration of what may have been the most important year of our lives.

      1215 : The Year of Magna Carta2004
      3,5
    • The Year 1000

      What Life Was Like At the Turn of the First Millennium

      • 230 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      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...

      The Year 10001999
    • The Year 1000

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the occasional group columnist. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, Lacey and Danziger interviewed the leading historians and archaeologists in their field. In the year 1000 the changing seasons shaped a life that was, by our standards, both soothingly quiet and frighteningly hazardous - and if you survived, you could expect to grow to just about the same height and stature as anyone living today. This exuberant and informative book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England and Christendom, with prophets of doom invoking the spectre of the Anti-Christ. Here comes the abacus - the medieval calculating machine - along with bewildering new concepts like infinity and zero. These are portents of the future, and THE YEAR 1000 finishes by examining the human and social ingredients that were to make for survival and success in the next thousand years.

      The Year 10001999
      3,8