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Author Harvey, Sally (Historian), author.

Title Domesday : book of judgement / Sally Harvey.

Publication Info. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.
©2014

Item Status

Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, tables
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- I: The making of Domesday book -- The English context: the 'Book of Winchester' and the Domus Dei -- The architects of the inquiry: The Bishops of the Royal clerks -- Who wrote Domesday? Resources and expertise in the Localities -- Who wrote Domesday? The returns and the book -- The mastermind -- II: The purposes of the inquiry and the book -- Coinage, the treasury, and the 'Exchequer' -- The valor: The Definition and import and values in Domesday -- Domesday and taxation -- 'The Checking': the inquest of Sheriffs and other royal office-holders -- III: Domesday and the day of judgement -- The book of the day of judgement.
Summary A study of the great 11th-century survey of England, the 'Domesday Book', examining the compilation and content of the survey, as well as how it laid the foundations for the 12th-century economy.
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Subject Domesday book.
Domesday book.
Domesday book.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Harvey, Sally. Domesday : book of judgement. First edition. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, ©2014 xx, 335 pages 9780199669783
ISBN 9780191648557 (e-book)
0191648558 (e-book)
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9781322059310
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9780199669783
0199669783