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Some Harvard organizations have taken a more celebratory attitude towards the new millennium, marking the occasion's academic significance...
...Medieval Studies Committee is also offering an academic perspective on the millennium. The committee hosted a mini-conference called "Y1K: Did the Millennium Make a Difference?" yesterday afternoon in the Barker Center...
...according to Professor of English and American Literature Daniel G. Donoghue, England might have missed the millennium. The king's scribes, he said, kept faulty records, and may have thought the date was 1049 or 1069, when it was actually 999. The error was not discovered until it was already 1000, he said lightheartedly...
...Professor of Medieval History Thomas N. Bisson noted that relatively few people knew what the date was in 1000, and few people cared. The time of the new millennium was already a time of crisis, with a rapid increase in the numbers of castles and knights, Bisson said...
...Landes disagreed with their dismissal of first millennium tensions, and said that scribes manipulated the dates at the end of the millennium because they feared an apocalypse. They shifted their interpretation of the beginning of "A.D." to avoid the year...