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...
How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another? The Year 1000 plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them with a historically accurate portrait of life on the cusp of the first millennium.