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Urban-rural connections in Domesday Book and late Anglo-Saxon royal administration

Title: Urban-rural connections in Domesday Book and late Anglo-Saxon royal administration / Jeremy Haslam.
Author: Haslam, Jeremy.
Publication: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2012.

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Description

iii, 144 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Summary

"One of the most tenacious and long-running controversies regarding the origin and development of the late Anglo-Saxon town has been the nature and function of 'heterogeneous tenure', one of the defining characteristics of the Domesday borough. This refers to the basic division of the larger boroughs as described in Domesday Book into the customary burgesses or tenements which owed dues and obligations to the king alone, and the non-customary burgesses or tenements which were appurtenant to the various manors of tenants-in-chief of the shire (and sometimes neighbouring shires) to whom they paid rent and owed other dues and services. This present study outlines a preliminary model for the development of these rural-urban connections, based primarily on a reassessment of the evidence in Domesday Book and in earlier charters, where available, and the spatial relationships of the manors enumerated in it to their central boroughs, their neighbours, and to shire and other early boundaries, as well as to other features of the physical and historic landscape. This model is developed and tested by the analysis of evidence from several adjoining areas in central England -- 1) Wiltshire (chapters 2 and 3); 2) Hampshire (chapter 4); 3) Warwickshire and south Staffordshire (chapter 5); 4) Gloucestershire (including the former Winchcombeshire) (chapter 6); 5) Worcestershire (chapter 7); and 6) Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire (chapters 10-12)"--Publisher's web site, viewed 14 Feb. 2013.

Series Statement

BAR British series ; 571

Uniform Title

BAR British series ; 571.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-144).

Contents

Heterogeneous tenure in Anglo-Saxon towns -- Wiltshire -- The burghal territories in Wiltshire -- Hampshire -- Warwickshire -- Gloucestershire -- Worcestershire -- Discussion: urban-rural connections and the development of territories -- Urban-rural connections : functions and origins : a model -- Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire -- The burghal territories of Oxford, Wallingford, Sashes and Buckingham -- Discussion: the development of the upper Thames area, 9th to 11th centuries -- Before and after the burhs of the Burghal hidage -- The function of the burghal system of the Burghal hidage.

ISBN

9781407310565
1407310569

OCLC

ocn826636309
826636309
SCSB-1677223

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library