A Second Domesday

Author : Sandra Raban
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514432

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A Second Domesday? by Sandra Raban Pdf

The 1279-80 hundred rolls are one of the most important sources for later thirteenth century England, yet this is the first comprehensive study of the inquiry which brought them into being. A Second Domesday will be an indispensable working tool for historians and is based on the latest knowledge of the returns. More of these are being discovered all the time and one of the aims of this book is to stimulate the recognition of other surviving texts. The book places the inquiry in its historical context, continental as well as English. This is followed by an examination of its purpose and whether or not it was conceived deliberately as a second Domesday Book. Central to the study is a consideration of the geographical range of the inquiry, how it was conducted and the way in which the returns were compiled. The way in which the inquiry was used, by historians as well as contemporaries, along with the introductory chapters will be particularly helpful to students. The book concludes with a description of all known returns, which, together with the appendices, are designed to assist future users.

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081652319

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Domesday Book and Beyond by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Author : Sandra Raban
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199252879

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A Second Domesday? by Sandra Raban Pdf

The 1279-80 hundred rolls are one of the most important sources for later thirteenth century England, yet this is the first comprehensive study of the inquiry which brought them into being. A Second Domesday will be an indispensable working tool for historians and is based on the latest knowledge of the returns. More of these are being discovered all the time and one of the aims of this book is to stimulate the recognition of other surviving texts. The book places theinquiry in its historical context, continental as well as English. This is followed by an examination of its purpose and whether or not it was conceived deliberately as a second Domesday Book. Central to the study is a consideration of the geographical range of the inquiry, how it was conducted and the way inwhich the returns were compiled. The way in which the inquiry was used, by historians as well as contemporaries, along with the introductory chapters will be particularly helpful to students. The book concludes with a description of all known returns, which, together with the appendices, are designed to assist future users.

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553562736

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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Pdf

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.

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:76038194

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Domesday Book by John Morris Pdf

Author : Sally Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191648557

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Domesday by Sally Harvey Pdf

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 realise 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.

Author : Austin Lane Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0192852876

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From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216 by Austin Lane Poole Pdf

Concentrates on the twelfth century and takes in the rule of William Rufus at the beginning and of John at the end.

Author : Thomas Hinde
Publisher : Continental Enterprises Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Domesday book
ISBN : 1858334403

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The Domesday Book by Thomas Hinde Pdf

A fundamental part of English heritage, the Domesday Book is unique in medieval history, recording an entire country and its inhabitants town by town, with over 12,500 entries. In this lavishly illustrated book, Elizabeth Hallam and Thomas Hinde examine the background to the nine-hundred-year-old document, setting the events of 1086 into the context of the medieval world. It is a remarkable tribute to English continuity that almost all of the Domesday settlements still exist in some form or another.

Author : David Roffe,K. S. B. Keats-Rohan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783270880

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Domesday Now by David Roffe,K. S. B. Keats-Rohan Pdf

Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh light on its mysteries.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446417577

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The Domesday Quest by Michael Wood Pdf

In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William the Conqueror. It was called Domesday, the day of judgement, because 'like the day of judgement, its decisions are unalterable'. In Search of the Roots of England is not only a study of the ancient manuscript but an attempt to analyse the world that Domesday Book so vividly portrayed. By skilful use of the Domesday record historian Michael Wood examines Norman society and the Anglo-Saxon, Roman, and even the Iron Age cultures that preceded it. 'Wood is a perceptive, entertaining and enthusiastic companion.' Sunday Times 'Wood is a lively storyteller.' Washington Post

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441121189

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The World Before Domesday by Ann Williams Pdf

Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before. She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business. This period saw the birth of a 'lesser aristocracy', the ancestors of the English gentry, the power-house of society and politics in the late medieval and early modern periods. Going on to examine the obligations and rewards of lordship and the relations between lords and their men, Williams illustrates how status was displayed and covers the importance of the manorial house, which was at once a home, an estate centre and a symbol of authority and the insignia of rank in weaponry, clothing and personal adornment. The growing gap between the highest rank of society and the lowest, fuelled by underlying economic developments is also covered. In conclusion she considers some of the occupations which symbolized and perpetuated lordly power. Though the upper levels of aristocratic society were swept away by the Norman settlement, the 'lesser aristocracy' had a much higher rate of survival and it was this group who began the manorialization of English society, familiar from the late medieval period.

Author : Austin Lane Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0198217072

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From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216 by Austin Lane Poole Pdf

Author : Brenda Williams
Publisher : Pitkin
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 184165132X

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Secrets of the Domesday Book by Brenda Williams Pdf

The Domesday Book was the survey of his new realm ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085. Read how this remarkable document was made in this beautifully illustrated and well-researched guide. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel.

Author : David Roffe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543241

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Domesday by David Roffe Pdf

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.

Author : Helen Forde,Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012288075

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Domesday Preserved by Helen Forde,Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf