Abstract
This paper examines Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger's book "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World," a look at life in medieval England. It shows how Lacey and Danziger's careful research make the book as informative as it is interesting by providing a captivating insight into medieval times through the recounting of the daily lives of the people of the time. It describes how the book covers a wide range of human experience from peasants to aristocracy and gives the reader an intimate knowledge of life, death and adversities faced by people of the time as well as covering topics including how clothes were fastened before buttons were used, medieval aphrodisiacs, folk cures for common ailments and even medieval brain surgery.

From the Paper
" The authors continue the book in the same captivating and conversational tone, and never fall into the trap of inundating the reader with dull statistics and information that plague so many historical texts. For example, Lacey and Danziger also dispel the popular misconception that English women of the time did not have as much property and influence as did their male counterparts. The authors note that women could own property, divorce their husbands, and receive an inheritance. When groom's families paid for a virgin girl, the money often went directly to the girl herself."

Tags:peasants, aristocracy, women, aphrodisiacs, folk, cures

Abstract
This paper examines the German rationale for the attack on Poland in 1939. It attempts to compare the real reasoning for the attack with the reasoning that the Germans presented to the world before the war began. It chooses the city of Danzig as an example to highlight the contrast between different rationales.

Outline
Introduction
German Pressure on Poland after Munich
New Direction in Polish-German Relations
Tensions Raises Over Danzig
Unexpected Polish Diplomacy
Crisis in Polish-German Relations in Summer of 1939
Conclusion

From the Paper
"During the summer of 1939 the Germans provoked several border-line conflicts and used them to increase tensions with Poland. They made Danzig their main base for coordinating provocative action. Gradually the executive committee of Danzig's government moved to Berlin. They allowed systematic violations of the city's constitution; Nazis in Danzig increasingly discriminated against Polish citizens and their government. A large amount of weapons and machinery were secretly delivered to the city. More and more "volunteers" joined Nazi gangs in Danzig."

Tags:danzig, nazis, hitler, ribbentrop

Abstract
A discussion of Danzigner's study on the history of experimental psychology. This paper basically traces the importance of learning about past experimental methods. It explains that the goal of Danziger's article is to offer those involved in the field of psychological research a chance to understand the history of experimentation. The paper presents an summary of Danziger's article, followed by an analysis and reactive interpretation.

From the Paper
"The understanding of the history of psychology is not only pertinent to our advancement within the academic and applied areas, but provides us with the framework upon which psychology was established, popularized and became functional. Danziger (1985) discusses the significance of the history and development of experimental practices in the field of psychology within a social framework. In The Origins of the Psychological Experiment as a Social Institution, Danziger presents us with a description of models of psychological experimentation derived from the social structure of science within the relevant time period."

Tags:experiment, hall, history, paris, psychology, stanley, subject, wundt