In light of late-20th-century interest in the end of the second millennium, the authors of this title present a portrait of what life was like at the end of the first millennium. Included are descriptions of daily life, clothing trends, medical practices, and more, all related to life in 10th-century medieval Europe, and organized around ...
A unique oral portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these 52 interviews with everyone from the director to cleaners to philanthropists and millionaires offer a glimpse behind the scenes of one of the greatest museums in the world.
On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of ...
When the shadow of the first millennium descended upon the Christian world in A.D. 1000, many people believed -- and some even hoped -- that the end of the world was at hand. Not only was it the first time civilization grappled with the idea of one thousand years coming to an end, but another thousand was unfathomable. How did people make sense of ...
Danziger and McCrum have assembled an impressive--and fun--collection of true terms for things people use and see everyday but are unsure of what they are called. Whimsical and informative, this reference offers hours of fun for anyone who just likes to know stuff.
Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now, bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell reveal the details of the extraordinary life of this mysterious man, and the age in which he lived ...
On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of ...
A series of interviews with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra - telling of the stress, tension, scandal, affections and rivalry between 100 people who have to spend almost all their waking hours together. Danziger writes a weekly column in "The Independent".
The author interviewed 38 men and women who have been divorced, encouraging them to decribe their marriages, how they met their partners, what went wrong and what lessons they learned. This book contains those interviews. Other work by the author includes "The Happiness Book".
This is a series of interviews with people who live and work around Lincoln Cathedral. A cathedral is many things to many people - its physical fabric inseparable from its social role and its spiritual significance. The author has published "All in a Day's Work" and "Eton Voices".
In light of late-20th-century interest in the end of the second millennium, the authors of this title present a portrait of what life was like at the end of the first millennium. Included are descriptions of daily life, clothing trends, medical practices, and more, all related to life in 10th-century medieval Europe, and organized around ...
Olia a estiercol, la noche solo se iluminaba con velas, utilizaban cuchillos en lugar de tenedores... El fin del segundo milenio es un buen momento para mirar atras y conocer en que hemos cambiado y en que seguimos igual. Mil anos ha bastado para acabar con la pena de muerte, aunque entonces se mataba a quien robaba y a las mujeres adulteras se ...
In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Viking adventures in which fear was real and death a constant companion. People felt they walked hand ...
Everyone who has been through a divorce has a tale to tell. Danny Danziger has opened up the painful subject by interviewing 38 men and women who have been divorced and encouraging them to describe their marriages: how they met their partners, what went right, what went wrong, and what lessons they took away. Assured of anonymity, Danziger's ...
What do you call the groove that runs between your nose and your mouth? What is the name for the stringy bits of a banana? What's the right word for the long white exhaust trail of an aeroplane? What is that thingummy called? The world is full of thingummies - things we ought to know the names for, probably think we do know the names for, but when ...
The year 1215 saw a time of global upheaval from which the ripples can still be felt today - but it was also an age of domestic changes and the development of a way of life not entirely different to our own. From the oddest detail to the grandest political struggle, Danny Danziger and John Gillingham paint an extraordinary picture of this ...
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