Compared with the razzmatazz surrounding the approach of the third millennium, the second millennium arrived to a fairly subdued reception. The only people to get excited about the year 1000 were those, branded "heretics" by the church, who were expecting the dawn of God's true kingdom.
西元一千年，倒推回去，可說是歷史上的第二個千禧年，氣氛是隱密的，除了少數被教廷視為異端份子，隱密地預期一個真正國度的到來，像今天這樣敲鑼打鼓的大肆慶祝並不存在。