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Domesday book through nine centuries / Elizabeth M. Hallam.
- Title
- Domesday book through nine centuries / Elizabeth M. Hallam.
- Author
- Hallam, Elizabeth M.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | DA190.D7 H34x 1986 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 224 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In 1086 a great survey of landholding in England was carried out on the orders of William the Conqueror, and its results were recorded in the two volumes which, within less than a century, were to acquire the name of Domesday, or the Book of Judgment, "because its decisions, like those of the Last Judgment, are unalterable." This detailed survey of the kingdom, unprecedented in its scope, gives us an extraordinarily vivid impression of life in the eleventh century. Elizabeth Hallam's engrossing text now reveals the reality of Domesday Book's history, and the purposes that is has served, through nine eventful centuries. Published to coincide with the 900th anniversary of the making of Domesday Book, this absorbing account sets out in fascinating detail, and with many illustrations, the story of what, beyond doubt, is one of the world's greatest written treasures. -- From publisher's description.
- Subject
- Great Britain. Public Record Office > History
- Domesday book
- 1066-1154
- Real property > England > Sources
- Land tenure > England > Sources
- Public records > Great Britain > History
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Great Britain > History
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Great Britain
- Great Britain > Sources. > Norman period, 1066-1154
- Great Britain > Historiography
- Great Britain > Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [117]-198.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The making of Domesday book -- The reputation and uses of Domesday book, 1087-1272 -- Domesday book as a working record, 1272-1700 -- The ancient Demesne and Domesday book to 1833 -- Domesday book in antiquarian and historical writing, 1570-1800 -- Domesday book since 1800 -- Appendixes: -- Chancery exemplifications and extracts from Domesday book returned on writs of Certiorari -- Loose returns on writs of Certiorari containing Domesday extracts -- Abstracts of Domesday book, 1299 to 14th century -- Exchequer exemplifications and certified copies from Domesday book, 1567-1902 -- Official transcripts of Domesday book, 1659-1783.
- ISBN
- 0500250979 :
- LCCN
- ^^^85051625^
- OCLC
- 13571745
- SCSB-10407562
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library