The Domesday Book Still Not That One

Author : Howard of Warwick
Publisher : The Funny Book Company
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781999895938

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The Domesday Book (Still Not That One) by Howard of Warwick Pdf

On the coat tails of the best-selling Domesday Book (No Not That One), someone has let out volume II of William’s Adventures in England. As if one book of this sort of thing wasn't enough... It's history, but not as we know it. England, 1067-ish and the King’s grip is tight. His Earls of Northumbria will keep dying though. Every time he appoints one, someone sticks something in them, or sets light to them. Something is going on and he has a strong suspicion who's behind it. If he's right, it could mean real trouble. In Viking Vinland, the man who would be king awaits rescue - and waits. If no one else is going to do it, he will just have to rescue himself. There's only a bit of sea to cross, he will sail home and take his throne by force. Although he might need a bit of help. And then there are the Danes and the Scots who have their own ideas. If Volume I is anything to go by, this situation is a recipe for disaster. And if you’ve got the recipe, you might as well make a disaster. The text books would have you believe that everything in the past was carefully planned and organised. That the leaders of the time were clear in their aims and decisive in their actions. That the people knew what great events they were living through. No one made mistakes, no one incompetent ever got to be in charge and above all, no one ever had a laugh. All that changed with Howard of Warwick. The 16th book to do things to history that it never asked for, returns to the aftermath of the most famous date ever. 1066. Well, the year after actually, no one ever talks about that - and with good reason, it was chaos. Caution: contains facts. What they said of The Domesday Book (No, Not That One) ‘Had me chuckling the whole way through,’ Discovering Diamonds. 5* ‘Brilliantly humorous,’ 5* ‘A laugh riot,

Author : Howard of Warwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999895940

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The Domesday Book II (Still Not That One) by Howard of Warwick Pdf

The Domesday Book that just keeps on giving. On the coat tails of the best-selling Domesday Book (No, Not That One), someone has let out volume II of William¿s Adventures in England. It's history, but not as we know it. England, 1067-ish and the King¿s grip is tight. His Earls of Northumbria will keep dying though. Every time he appoints one, someone sticks something in them, or sets light to them. Something is going on and he has a strong suspicion who's behind it. If he's right, it could mean real trouble. In Viking Vinland, the man who would be king awaits rescue - and waits. If no one else is going to do it, he will just have to rescue himself. There's only a bit of sea to cross, he will sail home and take his throne by force. Although he might need a bit of help. And then there are the Danes and the Scots who have their own ideas. If Volume I is anything to go by, this situation is a recipe for disaster. And if you¿ve got the recipe, you might as well make a disaster. The text books would have you believe that everything in the past was carefully planned and organised. That the leaders of the time were clear in their aims and decisive in their actions. That the people knew what great events they were living through. No one made mistakes, no one incompetent ever got to be in charge and above all, no one ever had a laugh. All that changed with Howard of Warwick. The 16th book to do things to history that it never asked for, returns to the aftermath of the most famous date ever. 1066. Well, the year after actually, no one ever talks about that - and with good reason, it was chaos.

Author : Richard Fitzneale,F. E. L. Carter,Nigel (Bishop of Ely),Diana E. Greenway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B4912446

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Constitutio Domus Regis by Richard Fitzneale,F. E. L. Carter,Nigel (Bishop of Ely),Diana E. Greenway Pdf

Corrections by: Carter, F.E.L.;; Unknown function: Greenway, D.E.

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:76038194

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Domesday Book by John Morris Pdf

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081652319

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Domesday Book and Beyond by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Author : Howard of Warwick
Publisher : The Funny Book Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781913383367

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The Magna Carta, (Or Is It?) by Howard of Warwick Pdf

Read the full text of Magna Carta in Latin and English here! But don't take the tale of its production too seriously - or seriously at all. From the quill of Howard of Warwick, the world's best selling author of historical humour, comes yet more History as it might have happened, but probably didn't. To mark the 800th anniversary, Howard has forced his attentions on the most famous charter in history. Here is a Runnymede full of real people; confused, squabbling, ill-informed and largely incompetent. Never mind 800 years, it's a miracle the charter survived to the end of its first week.... if it did! In The Magna Carta (Or Is It?) we discover that King John entrusted the copying of the original charter to one Aelward Dunktish, a man not normally reliable enough to pour water. The King must be up to something. And so must the nobles who want Dunktish for their own purposes. And then there are the King's notorious mercenaries, the men of Touraine, who have ideas of their own, all of them involving death and horses. They're all up to no good, and Dunktish IS no good. It's the sort of tale that will end in disaster - except in the hands of Aelward Dunktish, it all starts with one. Opinion on Howard of Warwick is not at all divided: "If Pratchett wrote history." "Hysterical, laugh out loud funny." "Very, very funny." scaryduck.com "Truly side-splitting." kateofmind

Author : Thomas Hinde
Publisher : Continental Enterprises Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Sally Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Michael Wood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Robin Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521528461

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Domesday Book and the Law by Robin Fleming Pdf

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.

Author : David Roffe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : David Roffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843833079

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Decoding Domesday by David Roffe Pdf

New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our understanding of the period.

Author : H. C. Darby,I. B. Terrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521080781

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The Domesday Geography of Midland England by H. C. Darby,I. B. Terrett Pdf

A single volume of the seven-volumed Domesday Geography of England, covering the areas of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire amongst others.

Author : Sandra Raban
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.