David Roffe's Decoding Domesday PDF

By David Roffe

ISBN-10: 1783270195

ISBN-13: 9781783270194

ISBN-10: 1843833077

ISBN-13: 9781843833079

The Domesday e-book is one in all our significant resources for a very important interval of English heritage; but it is still tough to interpret. This provocative new e-book proposes a whole second look, with profoundimplications for our figuring out of the society and economic climate of medieval England. particularly, it overturns the final assumption that the Domesday inquest used to be a entire survey of lords andtheir lands, and so tells us concerning the monetary underpinning of energy within the past due 11th century; quite, it means that in 1086 concerns of taxation and repair have been at factor and information have been gathered to light up those matters. What emerges from this is often that Domesday publication tells us much less a few actual economic system and people who sustained it than a tributary one, with a lot of the wealth of britain being passed over. The resource, then, isn't the obvious datum that social and fiscal historians would prefer it to be. In go back, even if, the booklet deals a richer figuring out of overdue eleventh-centuryEngland in its personal phrases; and elucidates many long-standing conundrums of the Domesday e-book itself.

DAVID ROFFE is an honorary examine fellow at Sheffield collage. He has written extensively on Domesday booklet and edited 5 volumes of the Alecto County version of the text.

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