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1000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (813 words) |
 | By 1000, Bruges and Ghent are holding regular trade fairs behind castle walls, a tentative return of economic life to western Europe. |
| In 1000, the papacy is firmly under the control of German Emperor Otto III, or "emperor of the world" as he styles himself. |
| But the church is about to embark on a series of reforms that would enhance its independence and prestige: the Cluniac movement, the building of the first great Transalpine stone cathedrals and the collation of the mass of accumulated decretals into a formulated canon law. |
| 1000 AD Home (82 words) |
| 1000 AD explored everyday life in England at the turn of the last millennium, as Viking longships prowled the coast and the Church warned of Armageddon. |
| The programme was filmed at a reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow, near Bury St Edmunds, which was settled in about 420 AD and abandoned around 650 AD. |
| Excavations began in 1965, and the current structures have been built on the same sites as the originals. |
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