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Domesday Now

Author : David Roffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270888
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Domesday Now written by David Roffe and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh light on its mysteries. Compiled from the records of a survey of the kingdom of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085, Domesday Book is a key source for the history of England. However, there has never been a critical edition of the textand so, despite over 200 years of intense academic study, its evidence has rarely been exploited to the full. The essays in this volume seek to realize the potential of Domesday Book by focussing on the manuscript itself. There are analyses of abbreviations, letter forms, and language; re-assessments of key sources, the role of tenants-in-chief in producing them, and the nature of the Norman settlement that their forms illuminate; a re-evaluation of the data and its referents; and finally, fresh examinations of the afterlife of the Domesday text and how it was subsequently perceived. In identifying new categories of evidence and revisiting old ones, these studies point to a better understanding of the text. There are surprising insights into its sources and developing programme and, intriguingly, a system of encoding hitherto unsuspected. In its turn the import of its data becomes clearer, thereby shedding new light on Anglo-Norman society and governance. It is in these terms that this volume offers a departure in Domesday studies and looks forward to the resolution of long-standing problems that have hitherto bedevilled the interpretation of an iconic text. David Roffe and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan are leading Domesday scholars who have published widely on Domesday Book and related matters. Contributors: Howard B. Clarke, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Andrew Lowerre, John Palmer, David Roffe, Ian Taylor, Pamela Taylor, Frank Thorn, Ann Williams.

Domesday

Author : David Roffe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191543241
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Domesday written by David Roffe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesday Book is the main source for an understanding of late Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest. And yet, despite over two centuries of study, no consensus has emerged as to its purpose. David Roffe proposes a radically new interpretation of England's oldest and most precious public record. He argues that historians have signally failed to produce a satisfactory account of the source because they have conflated two essentially unrelated processes, the production of Domesday Book itself and the Domesday inquest from the records of which it was compiled. New dating evidence is adduced to demonstrate that Domesday Book cannot have been started much before 1088, and old sources are reassessed to suggest that it was compiled by Rannulf Flambard in the aftermath of the revolt against William Rufus in the same year. Domesday Book was a land register drawn up by one of the greatest (and most hated) medieval administrators for administrative purposes. The Domesday inquest, by contrast, was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 and was an enterprise of a different order. Following the threat of invasion from Denmark in that year it addressed the deficiencies in the national system of taxation and defence, and its findings formed the basis for a renegotiation of assessment to the geld and knight service. This study provides novel insights into the inquest as a principal vehicle of communication between the crown and the free communities over which it exercised sovereignty, and will challenge received notions of kingship in the eleventh century and beyond.

Domesday Book and the Law

Author : Robin Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528467
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Domesday Book and the Law written by Robin Fleming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Domesday Book contains a great many things, including the most comprehensive, varied, and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the common law. This book argues that it can - and should - be read as a legal text. When the statistical information present in the great survey is stripped away, there is much material still left, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony given by jurors impanelled in 1086, or from the sworn statements of lords and their men. This information, read in context, can provide a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law. The volume provides translations (with Latin legal terminology included parenthetically) for all of Domesday Book's legal references, each numbered and organised by county, fee, and folio.

The Domesday Inquest

Author : Adolphus Ballard
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Domesday Inquest written by Adolphus Ballard and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1906 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decoding Domesday

Author : David Roffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783270195
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Decoding Domesday written by David Roffe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our understanding of the period. The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it remains difficult to interpret. This provocative new book proposes a complete re-assessment, with profound implications for our understanding of the society and economy of medieval England. In particular, it overturns the general assumption that the Domesday inquest was a comprehensive survey of lords and their lands, and so tells us about the economic underpinning of power in the late eleventh century; rather, it suggests that in 1086 matters of taxation and service were at issue and data were collected to illuminate these concerns. What emerges from this is that Domesday Book tells us less about a real economy and those who sustained it than a tributary one, with much of the wealth of England being omitted. The source, then, is not the transparent datum that social and economic historians would like it to be. Inreturn, however, the book offers a richer understanding of late eleventh-century England in its own terms; and elucidates many long-standing conundrums of the Domesday Book itself. DAVID ROFFE is an honorary research fellow at Sheffield University. He has written widely on Domesday Book and edited five volumes of the Alecto County Edition of the text.

Domesday

Author : Sally Harvey (Historian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199669783
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Domesday written by Sally Harvey (Historian) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesday: Book of Judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book. Sally Harvey depicts the Domesday Book as the written evidence of a potentially insecure conquest successfully transforming itself, by a combination of administrative insight and military might, into a permanent establishment. William I used the Domesday Inquiry to contain the new establishment and consolidate their landholding revolution within a strict fiscal and tenurial framework, with checks and balances to prevent the king's followers from taking more powers and assets than they had been allocated. In this way, the survey served as a conciliatory gesture between the conquerors and the conquered, as William I came to realize that, faced with the threat to his rule from the Danes, he needed England's native populations more than they needed him. Yes, the overlying theme of the Domesday Book is Judgment: every class of society had reason to regard the Survey's methodical and often pitiless proceedings as both a literal and a metaphorical day of account. In this volume, Sally Harvey considers the Anglo-Saxon background and the architects of the Survey: the bishops, royal clerks, sheriffs, jurors, and landholders who contributed to Domesday's content and scope. She also discusses at length the core information in the Survey: coinage, revenues from landholding, fiscal concessions, and taxation, as well as some central tenurial issues. She draws the conclusion that the record, whilst consolidating William's position as king of the English, also laid the foundations for the twelfth-century treasury and exchequer. The volume newly argues that the Domesday survey also became an inquest into individual sheriffs and officials, thereby laying a foundation for reinterpreting the size of towns in England.

Domesday England

Author : H. C. Darby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521310260
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Domesday England written by H. C. Darby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesday Book is the most famous English public record, and it is probably the most remarkable statistical document in the history of Europe. It calls itself merely a descriptio and it acquired its name in the following century because its authority seemed comparable to that of the Book by which one day all will be judged (Revelation 20:12). It is not surprising that so many scholars have felt its fascination, and have discussed again and again what it says about economic, social and legal matters. But it also tells us much about the countryside of the eleventh century, and the present volume is the seventh of a series concerned with this geographical information. As the final volume, it seeks to sum up the main features of the Domesday geography of England as a whole, and to reconstruct, as far as the materials allow, the scene which King William's clerks saw as they made their great inquest.

Domesday Studies

Author : James Clarke Holt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851154770
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Domesday Studies written by James Clarke Holt and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An enduring contribution to historical scholarship.' AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Seventeen papers with maps and diagrams. Subjects include the portrayal of land settlement in Domesday, continental parallels, numismatics, place and personal names, topography, and the greater Domesday tenants in chief.

Constitutio Domus Regis

Author : Richard Fitzneale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Constitutio Domus Regis written by Richard Fitzneale and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrections by: Carter, F.E.L.;; Unknown function: Greenway, D.E.

Doomsday Book

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553562738
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Doomsday Book written by Connie Willis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216

Author : Austin Lane Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198217077
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216 written by Austin Lane Poole and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Domesday Inquest and the Making of Domesday Book

Author : Rex Welldon Finn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Domesday Inquest and the Making of Domesday Book written by Rex Welldon Finn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Domesday Inquest

Author : Adolphus Ballard
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Domesday Inquest written by Adolphus Ballard and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1906 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216

Author : Paul Dalton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317060962
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216 written by Paul Dalton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and other lords pervaded and dominated society and was frequently challenged and resisted. But while biographies of rulers, studies of the institutions and operation of central, local and seigniorial government, and works on particular political struggles abound, many major aspects of rulership and rebellion remain to be explored or further elucidated. This volume, written by leading scholars in the field and dedicated to the pioneering work of Professor Edmund King, will make an original, important and timely contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Anglo-Norman history.

The Earls of Mercia

Author : Stephen David Baxter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199230986
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Earls of Mercia written by Stephen David Baxter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the family of Ealdorman Leofwine, which retained power throughout an extraordinary period of political and dynastic upheaval, Stephen Baxter reassesses fundamental elements of late Anglo-Saxon government and society, offering a fresh interpretation of the structure of the late Anglo-Saxon polity and the origins of the Norman Conquest.

English Surnames

Author : Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book English Surnames written by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domesday Book and Beyond. Three Essays in the Early History of England

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Domesday Book and Beyond. Three Essays in the Early History of England written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: