Domesday Book: A Complete Translation
by G. H. Martin (Editor), Ann Williams (Editor)
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Domesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history--and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Latin, together with an index of places and a glossary of terms used. Domesday was compiled in a matter of months in 1086, at the end of William the Conqueror's life. According to a first-hand account by Robert, Bishop of Hereford, those sent out by the king ". . . made a survey of all England; of show more the lands in each of the countries; of the possessions of each of the magnates, their lands, their habitations, their men." The detailed picture of the English landscape it offers has no equal in any country, while it is valuable not only in the picture it allows local historians to construct their area in the eleventh century but also as the foundation document of the national archives. "Domesday Book is the book of English history. No other country in the world possesses such a detailed single record from so far back . . . A must for scholars and history buffs everywhere."--Michael Wood "Domesday Book is not only one of the most important documents in English history: it is one of the most extraordinary documents in any country's history"--Lady Antonia Fraser "The most detailed survey of a kingdom before the modern age . . . Now a new translation has been published in one volume, offering a unique picture of an early medieval society."--The Times Educational Supplement show lessTags
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Oldest record of Anglo-Saxon England - a superb written account at the time of the Norman Conquest: Following their victory at the Battle of Hastings (1066) a wide-ranging, assiduously collected census under-taken by the new rulers of England. Over several years it produced a geographical-economic-social listing of the peoples of England who were being displaced as the prevailing social order & at all levels reduced in class to peasantry. Domesday is made on the orders of Duke William (latterly King of England) of Normandy to enable his 10,000 strong cohort of 'conquerors' to collect the taxes & configure the Feudal System that will govern England for centuries & in some ways still affects the geo-political landscape of the nation. No show more other European country possesses such a unique early History. show less
Fascinating in the way a set of encyclopedias or a dictionary can be...there is no story or plot, being just a tax record of assets, but really absorbing.
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Ann Williams now retired, was formerly Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the Polytechnic (now University) of North London, is a Senior Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA).
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- Canonical title
- Domesday Book: A Complete Translation
- Alternate titles
- The King's book; The great book of Winchester
- Original publication date
- 1992 (translation) (translation)
- People/Characters
- William the Conqueror; Edward the Confessor; William de Warenne; Geoffrey de Mandeville; Miles Crispin; Walter Giffard (show all 20); William de Eu; William de Falaise; Edward of Salisbury; Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror; Roger de Beaumont; Hugh de Grandmesnil; Ralph de Tosny; Aubrey de Vere; William Peverel; Hugh de Beauchamp; Hugh d'Ivry; Ralph de Mortimer; Normans; The Domesday Book
- Important places
- Kent, England, UK; Sussex, England, UK; Surrey, England, UK; Hampshire, England, UK; Berkshire, England, UK; Wiltshire, England, UK (show all 34); Dorset, England, UK; Somerset, England, UK; Devon, England, UK; Cornwall, England, UK; Middlesex, England, UK (defunct ∙ see London); Hertfordshire, England, UK; Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Oxfordshire, England, UK; Gloucestershire, England, UK; Worcestershire, England, UK; Herefordshire, England, UK; Cambridgeshire, England, UK; Huntingdonshire, England, UK; Bedfordshire, England, UK; Northhamptonshire, England, UK; Leicestershire, England, UK; Warwickshire, England, UK; Staffordshire, England, UK; Shropshire, England, UK; Cheshire, England, UK; Derbyshire, England, UK; Nottinghamshire, England, UK; Yorkshire, England, UK; Lincolnshire, England, UK; Essex, England, UK; Norfolk, England, UK; Suffolk, England, UK; London, England, UK
- Important events
- William the Conqueror's survey of England ( [1085]); Domesday Book
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 941 — History & geography History of Europe British Isles
- LCC
- DA190 .D6913 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Early and medieval to 1485 Celts. Romans. Saxons. Danes. Normans
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
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