Millennium: The Construction of Christianity and the Fear of the Arrival of the Year 1000 in Europe

Millennium is about the time of Otto the Great, Viking caliphs and kings, hermits, monks, and serfs. A moment in history that witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of nobility, and the founding of the papal monarchy. Above all, a period that instilled in people the fear that the world would end and—with an enormous effort that still affects us—reinvented civilization once again. A remarkable feat, nothing less than the founding of the modern West.