Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.4 - The Domesday Book of 1086
from Eleventh Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
The Domesday book, surviving now in the National Archives in London, was the great land survey of 1086 instigated by William the Conqueror to enable him to tax the land correctly. It summarises in a largely formulaic format in Latin the holdings of each of the royal tenants and the population and property across most of the country. The huge work contains amazing detail about named individuals. Here short excerpts are also included from Henry of Huntingdon’s History of the English and from the work called the Dialogue of the Exchequer which describes the DOmesday book and its inception.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 55 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024