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Domesday Book
This is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Latin of 'Domesday Book', together with indexes of places and people and a glossary of terms used.
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Domesday Book (Penguin Classic)
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 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 an...
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Great Domesday
"On October 14th, 1066, William Duke of Normandy won his English kingdom on the field of Hastings. In the years that followed William crushed rebellion, erecting Norman castles across England and Wales and parcelling out the land to his followers. In order to establish these rights beyond dispute, and also to discover what his new dominions were worth in revenue, William commanded a great survey of the kingdom. Over eight months his agents scoured the countryside, recording in detail and then reporting to the king's commissioners who condensed this information into a book covering the 31 counties of England south of the Tees. It was known as the King's or Winchester roll, but the conquered Anglo-Saxons gave it a bitter nickname: 'The domesday book', so called because to argue with its decisions was as futile as to dispute those of the Last Judgement." -- supplied by publisher.
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