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Of all the civilizations existing in the year 1000, that of American Europe felt the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the advantage of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years became, not the portents of the finish of the world, as much Christians possessed dreaded, but instead the birthpangs of the radically new order. MILLENNIUM is a sensational panoramic accounts of both centuries on either aspect of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was age Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the technology of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. The story of how the distinctive culture of European countries - restless, creative and vibrant - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is really as fascinating so that as momentous as any ever sold.
