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Using the Julius Work Calendar<\/a> (images of the calendar can be found here<\/a>) as an organizing motif Lacey presents the life of the English (then living in Engla-lond) through a twelve-month cycle. At the start of that millennium Christianity was just starting to plant a firm foot into the life, culture, politics, and religion of the people of Engla-lond. One of the aspects of the book I found fascinating to read in each chapter was about what existed in the year 1000 and what did not yet exist. <\/p>\n Lacey concludes the book,<\/p>\n What C. S. Lewis called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snobbery of chronology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d encourages us to presume that just because we happen to have lived after our ancestors and can read books which give us some account of what happened to them, we must also know better than them. We certainly have more facts at our disposal. We have more wealth, both personal and national, better technology, and infinitely more skilful ways of preserving and extending our lives. But whether we today display more wisdom or common humanity is an open question, and when we look back to discover how people coped with the daily difficulties of existence a thousand years ago, we might also consider whether, in all our sophistication, we could meet the challenges of their world with the same fortitude, good humour, and philosophy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is an entertaining and informative reading experience. Highly recommended. <\/p>\n Eight years into the new millennium has diminished the novelty of that turn of the calendar. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember when was the last article or workshop I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen with a reference to how to anticipate and address some concern \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in … Continue reading 
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