Domesday The Inquest and the Book

Name: Domesday The Inquest and the Book
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ISBN: 9780198208471

ISBN-10: 0198208472

ISBN-13: 9780198208471

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Roffe

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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…

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Preface


The Mystique of the Book


Domesday and Title to Land


The Inquest and Government


The Texts


The Collection of Data


Commissioners and the Limits of their Commission


Circuit Reports


The Writing of Great Domesday


The Domesday Inquest and the Domesday Book


Afterword


Bibliography


Index