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1. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › domesday-bookDomesday Book - The National Archives

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   Domesday Book is a detailed survey and valuation of landed property in England at the end of the 11th century. The survey was ordered by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 and undertaken the...

2. www.bbc.co.uk › history › britishBritish History in depth: The Domesday Book - BBC

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   The Domesday Book. Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. Find out how it was compiled, and what it...

3. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesThe Domesday Book - William's control of England - KS3 ... - BBC

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   This detailed record of England was called the Domesday Book. It gives historians a great source of information to find out what life in medieval England was really like.

4. www.historyextra.com › period › normanYour Guide To The Domesday Book: What Was It & Why Was It ...

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   Domesday Book is the most complete survey of a pre-industrial society anywhere in the world. It enables us to reconstruct the politics, government, society and economy of 11th-century England with greater precision than is possible for almost any other pre-modern polity.

5. www.thenational.academy › teachers › programmesThe significance of Domesday Book - Oak National Academy

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   The Domesday Book is available online. Have students search for their local record to identify key details like who held the manor in 1066 and in 1085, the geld owed, and how many mills or enslaved people there were.

6. www.medievalchronicles.com › medieval-historyDomesday Book Overview - Learn about the Normans and the ...

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   Domesday Book Overview - Discover the Reason and Purpose of the 'Domesday Book' on Medieval England - Discover the Normans, William the Conqueror and the D Great Domesday and Little Domesday Book!

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   What is a 'Domesday Book'?

   • ‘Domesday Book’ is the collective term for these two volumes: the Great and Little Domesday Book. Why is it called Domesday Book? During the lifetimes of the Conqueror and his sons, royal officials employed politically correct language when describing Domesday Book.

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   Where can I find a translation of Domesday Book?

   • Alternatively, you can use the Alecto translation in Domesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin Books, 1992), which is indexed by place; or the printed transcript and translations produced by Alecto in 1986. Both are available in The National Archives’ library.

   Domesday Book - The National Archives

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   What did the Conqueror call the Domesday Book?

   • During the lifetimes of the Conqueror and his sons, royal officials employed politically correct language when describing Domesday Book. They called it a “descriptio (survey) of all England” (in 1086), a “volumen (volume) kept in the king’s Treasury in Winchester,” the “king’s book,” the “book of the Exchequer,” the “book of Winchester,” and so on.

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   Is the Domesday Book a complete re-assessment of medieval England?

   • Decoding Domesday – The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it remains difficult to interpret. This provocative new book proposes a complete re-assessment, with profound implications for our understanding of the society and economy of medieval England.

   A Guide to the Domesday Book - Medievalists.net

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   Who was in the Domesday Book?

   • The Domesday Book does not list every person who lived in the country, as William was mainly interested in wealthy landowners who he could tax to fund his army. A consequence of this is that women and poor people are underrepresented in the survey, as most landowners were wealthy men.

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   How was the great survey entered into the Domesday Book?

   • The information from the Great Survey was then entered into the Domesday Book by merging with other existing records. The book was originally written in Latin. Soon after being written, Domesday Book came to be used extensively in the England law under the Normans.

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8. www.medievalists.net › 2010 › 08A Guide to the Domesday Book - Medievalists.net

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   Aug 10, 2010 · Still, for any historian of medieval England, the Domesday Book is an invaluable resource, which can be used to study the economics and social history of the period, how the royal government operated, and understand how various nobles built up their fortunes.