Dimensions
140 x 207 x 27mm
A clever and hilarious survival guide to the Dark Ages.
How did our ancestors live in the Dark Ages? How civilised were they? (not very.)
'A.D. 500' takes the reader back to the ancient British Isles, when they were barbarous islands on the edge of the known world. Any picture of these years must be pieced together from a mixture of archaeological evidence and surviving texts translated from any number of ancient dialects - Norse, Pict, Latin, Greek, Celtic and Angle. Each of these settler peoples have had their own traditions and left their own mark on the landscape. 'A.D. 500' travels around the sixth-century British Isles to see where and how they lived.
From the author's impressive knowledge of the evidence, he reconstructs the world of the Dark Ages - druids; boat burials; clothes and hairstyles; alcoholic drinks; Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall; tribal war; underground houses; the legend of King Arthur; human sacrifice; and many a strange custom.
