The Year 1000: Life at the Turn of the First Millennium.
The Year 1000, a book by Robert Lacey and Danziger, explores how people lived in the year 1000, at the turn of the millennium. Life in the year 1000 was very different from life today. Lacey and Danziger used the Julius Work Calendar to describe the lives of the Englishmen. The Julius Work Calendar shows the different forms of which that labour could take. The month January signifies the month of the ploughman. The ploughman fed everyone, he provided the bread and drink to the villagers. The plough in England was very advanced compared to other parts of the world. The plough had wheels and iron blades, it was considered to be supercharged. This plough enabled two men to tear up a whole acre of soil, with the help of the beast. The beast not only provided horse power, but also enriched the fields with its manure. The plough provided a way of life for people in the year 1000. .
The Englishman during this time was considerably tall, about the same size as we are today. Many of the Englishmen lived where the land was very green, and unpolluted. The countryside where they would choose to live would not only make their lives simple, but would benefit their health. These people were very healthy, the food grew very strong limbs, and kept their teeth very healthy. Life was short in the year 1000, a young boy at the age of 12, could address the king and swears their oath of allegiance. Young women would marry very young, usually in their early teens, and they mostly married considerably older men. It was after the first millennium that over population and over crowding started to affect the well-being of people in Western Europeans. Some excavations in later mid-evil sites reveal that people are already getting smaller. January also tells us that Good and Evil are a way of life for people in the year 1000.
February is the month to prune the vigorous yard of vines, a process by tradition started on St.
