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The Survey of the Whole of England - Studies of the documentation resulting from the survey conducted in 1086 (Paperback)
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The Survey of the Whole of England - Studies of the documentation resulting from the survey conducted in 1086 (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports British Series
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The manuscript which eventually came to be called "Domesday Book"
is a product of the enterprise originally known as the "Descriptio
totius Angliae," the survey carried out in 1086, twenty years after
the Norman Conquest, by order of King William I. This manuscript
does not stand alone. It is the latest of four successive versions
of the written record of the survey. Intrinsically the least
valuable, it has gained in value over time, as the earlier versions
have dropped out of existence. But they have not disappeared
completely. Part of the immediately preceding version survives as
the companion volume to "Domesday Book"; part of the version
preceding that survives, for some unknown reason, in the library of
Exeter Cathedral, even though it was, without any doubt, written in
the king's treasury at Winchester. The earliest version of all -
the only version in which the data were recorded cadastrally,
county by county, hundred by hundred, village by village, manor by
manor - has been entirely lost in the original; yet for most of one
county a copy survives, in a late twelfth-century manuscript from
Ely. This book begins with a sequence of chapters which analyse
some aspects of the manuscript evidence, from a new angle, or in
closer detail than before, working backwards from the latest
version towards the earliest. The last two chapters reassemble the
evidence to create a new picture of the conduct of the survey, in
both its fieldwork and its post-fieldwork phases.
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