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Decoding Domesday (Paperback)
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New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling
of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our
understanding of the period. The Domesday Book is one of our major
sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it remains
difficult to interpret. This provocative new book proposes a
complete re-assessment, with profound implications for our
understanding of the society and economy of medieval England. In
particular, it overturns the general assumption that the Domesday
inquest was a comprehensive survey of lords and their lands, and so
tells us about the economic underpinning of power in the late
eleventh century; rather, it suggests that in 1086 matters of
taxation and service were at issue and data were collected to
illuminate these concerns. What emerges from this is that Domesday
Book tells us less about a real economy and those who sustained it
than a tributary one, with much of the wealth of England being
omitted. The source, then, is not the transparent datum that social
and economic historians would like it to be. Inreturn, however, the
book offers a richer understanding of late eleventh-century England
in its own terms; and elucidates many long-standing conundrums of
the Domesday Book itself. DAVID ROFFE is an honorary research
fellow at Sheffield University. He has written widely on Domesday
Book and edited five volumes of the Alecto County Edition of the
text.
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