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Domesday Now - New Approaches to the Inquest and the Book (Hardcover)
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Domesday Now - New Approaches to the Inquest and the Book (Hardcover)
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Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh
light on its mysteries. Compiled from the records of a survey of
the kingdom of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in
1085, Domesday Book is a key source for the history of England.
However, there has never been a critical edition of the textand so,
despite over 200 years of intense academic study, its evidence has
rarely been exploited to the full. The essays in this volume seek
to realize the potential of Domesday Book by focussing on the
manuscript itself. There are analyses of abbreviations, letter
forms, and language; re-assessments of key sources, the role of
tenants-in-chief in producing them, and the nature of the Norman
settlement that their forms illuminate; a re-evaluation of the data
and its referents; and finally, fresh examinations of the afterlife
of the Domesday text and how it was subsequently perceived. In
identifying new categories of evidence and revisiting old ones,
these studies point to a better understanding of the text. There
are surprising insights into its sources and developing programme
and, intriguingly, a system of encoding hitherto unsuspected. In
its turn the import of its data becomes clearer, thereby shedding
new light on Anglo-Norman society and governance. It is in these
terms that this volume offers a departure in Domesday studies and
looks forward to the resolution of long-standing problems that have
hitherto bedevilled the interpretation of an iconic text. David
Roffe and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan are leading Domesday scholars who have
published widely on Domesday Book and related matters.
Contributors: Howard B. Clarke, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan,
Andrew Lowerre, John Palmer, David Roffe, Ian Taylor, Pamela
Taylor, Frank Thorn, Ann Williams.
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