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Book Synopsis`A scholarly feast... a milestone in the history and historiography of medieval England. Its essays are without exception authoritative and well-written and it indicates not only the progress made in Domesday studies in the last hundred years but also the continuing significance of the pioneer work of the great Domesday scholars such as Maitland and Galbraith.' PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
`An enduring contribution to historical scholarship.'AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW name studies, palaeography and topography.
Table of ContentsThe beyond of Domesday Book, H.R.Loyn; Domesday Book - continental parallels, R.H.C.Davis; 1086, J.C.Holt; William of Saint-Calais and the Domesday survey, Pierre Chaplais; the Domesday manuscripts - scribes and scriptoria, Alexander R.Rumble; Domesday book and the geographer, H.C.Darby; Domesday book - place-names and personal names, J.McN.Dodgson; the Domesday manor, J.J.N.Palmer; Domesday Book - estate structures in the West Midlands, John D.Hamshere; the portrayal of land settlement in Domesday book, Glanville R.J.Jones; some agents and agencies of the late Anglo-Saxon state, James Campbell; the greater Domesday tenants-in-chief, C.Warren Hollister; taxation and the economy, Sally P.J.Harvey; local churches in Domesday book and before, W.J.Blair; the taxation of moneyers under Edward the Confessor and in 1086, D.M.Metcalf; towns in Domesday Book, Susan Reynolds; early Norman Winchester, Martin Biddle.
