Danny Danziger
Author of The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
About the Author
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Works by Danny Danziger
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- Canonical name
- Danziger, Danny
- Legal name
- Danziger, Daniel Guggenheim
- Birthdate
- 1953-02-01
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- Rollins College (BA)
- Occupations
- Columnist
- Organizations
- London Sunday Times
Daily Mail
Independent - Agent
- InkWell Management
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The Year 1000 What Life Was Like At the Turn of the… by Robert & Danny Danziger Lacey
This entertaining and well-written book givees a real feel for every day life at the turn of the first millennium. Approached with a very light touch, the authors touch on the daily life and concerns of all sections of the population, whether hand-to-mouth villagers, men and women of God, soldiers or nobility. Their day-to-day problems and joys, their concerns for the future are all touched on the give a vivid portrait of life 1000 years ago. It's not a scholarly book, but one which is easily read in the course of a day , whetting the appetite for more.… (more)
The author uses a calendar (The Julius Work Calendar) from about 1020 to provide structure and line drawings from the time for each month. He adds information from other sources and the book is interesting and informative (and occasionally a bit horrifying).
I read through this for the second time over the weekend and found it to be a bit more “meh” than the first time I read it. A lot of the info was things I already knew and what I didn’t know wasn’t that interesting.
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- Works
- 14
- Members
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- Popularity
- #6,786
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 86
- ISBNs
- 56
- Languages
- 2