By the time of the survey, he was the sheriff of Suffolk and one of the largest landowners of East Anglia. Despite several attempts, nothing comparable was produced until the 19th century. Much the most plausible theory is that it was designed to inform the king about his own rights as land-owner. The survey was ordered by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 and undertaken the following year. Woodland for 100 pigs. It is indeed full of oxen, cows and pigs and a variety of other information, in addition to the facts found in its companion. What is known as Domesday Book is in fact a composite work in two volumes. Three centuries after its creation, at the time of the peasants' revolt, educated serfs started asking for extracts to be made for them to prove that their servile status was a modern invention. Domesday Book Domesday Book is the oldest government record held in The National Archives. The only complaint one can fairly make is that there is virtually no introduction.Thanks to the patient detective work of some great medievalists, we know a lot about the Domesday Book. Domesday Book, compiled in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, has been described as "the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation" (David Hume) and viewed by historians as the final act of the Norman conquest.Produced under the supervision of the most renowned Domesday scholars, this authoritative translation of the complete Domesday offers a rem In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.Penguin Classics; New Ed Edition (30 Oct. 2003).After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.History of The Plantaganets & Medieval England. Very clean, tight, neat set with crisp pages and very clean and sound slipcase. Compiled in a matter of months in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, Domesday quickly established itself as document of immense legal importance. There are 10 ploughs in demesne; and 16 villans with 21 bordars and 8 slaves have 10 ploughs. Sadly, the judge found it possible to decide the case without reference to it.One might wonder what the readers of this edition will get out of it. In medieval societies, as in modern ones, the main constraint on the power of the state was its ignorance. The outcome of the king's "deep discussion" was the famous survey of England, which later became known as the Domesday Book. Penguin's edition will change that. Geoffrey Martin,Download Domesday Book : A Complete Translation –,Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (3,681),Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen Set - Known as Little Domesday (although it is actually bigger), this covers the three missing counties in much greater detail. Penguin’s edition will change that. The entry about his estates shows he was a shrewd manager, taking full advantage of the plentiful supply of tied peasants. Servility works. William, the most authoritarian ruler this country ever had, was determined to do something about that.Until it was rebound a few years ago, the book consisted of two stout volumes in the Public Record Office. It contains a record, county by county, of the whole of England except for the three East Anglian counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex: how much land the king had, how much land was held by the king's tenants, who occupied what, who held the land before the conquest, and how much it was worth then and now.The survey that produced it was even more intrusive than the final text. He had a less good point, but gets high marks for imagination. The National Archives Virtual Museum: Domesday Book; Collection of Domesday lectures by David Roffe - Historian David Roffe's contemporary views on Domesday, its content and purpose. And serve him right.Whatever the original plan, the book has in practice been used for many purposes. Please try again later.Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy,The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England,The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World,The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople,Discover Book Picks from the CEO of Penguin Random House US. G. H. Martin (1928–2007) was a British scholar and historian who taught at University College, Leicester, and Merton College, Oxford. Domesday Book Domesday Book was unique in Western Europe and it set a standard: henceforward only the most all-embracing surveys were called Domesday. Domesday Book has been described as ‘the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.’ (David Hume) But a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price. 16 acres of meadow. It must have come in useful when Bigod took part in a rebellion in 1088 and temporarily lost Framlingham, together with all his other estates. Volume one, known as Great or Exchequer Domesday, is an abbreviated version of the returns from 32 counties; Little Domesday survives because the East Anglian material had not yet been incorporated when William died and all further work on the project was abandoned. It is certainly not a book to read from cover to cover. It is also one of the most remarkable: an early example of the obsessional nosiness of governments, and their perennial urge to number and classify. Nineteenth-century scholars and 11th-century landowners may not have had much in common, but they did share a profound suspicion of the state and all its doings, especially its financial doings.