![]() The Julius Work Calendar (see image here) was probably produced around 1020 CE in Canterbury Cathedral. It takes as its starting point a little known document from around 1020. Lacey and Danziger's book of popular history is surprisingly interesting in this regard. Vastly more important and more interesting are the more subtle social differences. They are the result of the exploration, scientific discovery and history of the next thousand years. In some ways though, these differences are only superficial. Diets were worse, mostly because of the difficulty of storing food and shortages caused by bad harvests, though there were other differences - many foods such as sugar, spinach, tomatoes and potatoes had yet to reach these shores. Labour in the fields was done by men and women, occasionally they had animals too. ![]() Ploughs in the year 1000 were predominately wood. ![]() Many of these are of course technological. There are an enormous number of differences between the years M and MM in the British Isles. ![]()
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