Domesday : book of judgement / Sally Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Sally, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domesday book.

Great Britain--History--Norman period, 1066-1154.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Domesday: Book of Judgement""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Table""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Bibliographical Note""; ""Note on Terminology""; ""Introduction""; ""1: The English Context: The �Book of Winchester� and the Domus Dei""; ""THE WINCHESTER HERITAGE""; ""Edward the Confessor and Winchester""; ""THE IMPORT OF WINCHESTER""; ""DOMUS DEI""; ""A ROYAL WRITING OFFICE?""; ""EXPERTISE IN THE REGIONS""; ""RECORDS""; ""WINCHESTER, THE BISHOPS, AND THE TREASURY""

""2: The Architects of the Inquiry: The Bishops and the Royal Clerks""""THE ROLE OF THE BISHOPS""; ""CONTINUITY, EXPERTISE, AND THE LOTHARINGIAN CONNECTION""; ""THE KING�S NEW MEN""; ""LAND PLEAS AND DOMESDAY COMMISSIONERS""; ""3: Who Wrote Domesday? Resources and Expertise in the Localities""; ""THE LANDHOLDERS� WRITTEN RETURNS""; ""THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES""; ""The shire""; ""The shire and the sheriff""; ""Documents in the shires: Fiscal lists""; ""Bishops in the shire court""; ""Others of the shire""; ""The hundred, the wapentake, and the Domesday jurors""; ""The Domesday jurors""

""Function in the Inquiry""""Pressures on the men of the shire, hundred, and vill""; ""HUNDRED VERSUS LANDHOLDER AS SUPPLIERS OF INFORMATION""; ""4: Who Wrote Domesday? The Returns and the Book""; ""DEFINING THE CIRCUITS""; ""THE ROLE OF THE DOMESDAY COMMISSIONERS""; ""REGIONAL DOMESDAYS""; ""THE DATE OF GREAT DOMESDAY""; ""THE ORDER OF GREAT DOMESDAY�S INSCRIPTION""; ""THE GREAT DOMESDAY SCRIBE AND HIS SCRIPTORIUM""; ""5: The Mastermind""; ""PERSONALITY AND ANONYMITY IN DOMESDAY""; ""ROBERT, BISHOP OF HEREFORD 1079�95""; ""SAMSON, BISHOP OF WORCESTER 1096�1112""

""WILLIAM OF ST CALAIS, BISHOP OF DURHAM 1080�1096""""OSMUND, CHANCELLOR 1070�8, BISHOP OF SALISBURY 1078�1099""; ""RANNULF FLAMBARD, BISHOP OF DURHAM 1099�1128""; ""THE DOMESDAY CONNECTION""; ""APPENDIX: Samson and Rannulf""; ""6: Coinage, the Treasury, and the �Exchequer�""; ""THE COMPLEXITY OF CROWN RECEIPTS IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY""; ""Methods of payment in coin and silver in Domesday""; ""1. Payment by counting""; ""2. Payment by weight""; ""3. The assay and Treasury practices""; ""RENOVATIO, THE TREASURY, AND THE HUNDRED""; ""MINT TAXATION: DE MONETA AND MONETAGIUM""

""COINAGE AND TRADING POLICIES""""THE �EXCHEQUER� AND WINCHESTER""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX 1: Gold payments in Domesday""; ""APPENDIX 2: Assaying, blanching, and ingots""; ""1. ALBUS AND CANDIDUS""; ""2. BLANCUS""; ""3. PAYMENTS �SMELTED AND WEIGHED�""; ""APPENDIX 3: An interpreted translation of silver payment phrases""; ""7: The Valor: The Definition and Import of Values in Domesday""; ""THE CENTRAL QUESTIONS AND SOME INTERPRETATIONS""; ""THE BENEFICIARIES""; ""PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY AND TIME""; ""WHO WERE THE VALUERS? WHO RECEIVED THE VALUE?""

""The role of shire and hundred""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-175750-0

0-19-164855-8

OCLC:

891400266