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- The Domesday Book detailed exactly what each subject owned in England and how much that land was worth. This enabled William to calculate tax much more accurately than previous Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
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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...
- William's control of England
Why did William need the Domesday Book? Video about the...
- William's control of England
Jan 8, 2021 · 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.
- Ellie Cawthorne
Domesday Book (/ ˈ d uː m z d eɪ / DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror. [1]
Why did William need the Domesday Book? Video about the Domesday Book; How was the information gathered? What does the Domesday Book tell us? Consequences of the Domesday Book; Test your...
Oct 15, 2024 · Domesday Book, the original record or summary of William I’s survey of England. By contemporaries the whole operation was known as “the description of England,” but the popular name Domesday—i.e., “doomsday,” when men face the record from which there is no appeal—was in general use by the mid-12th.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
Nov 19, 2018 · Domesday Book was a comprehensive survey and record of all the landowners, property, tenants and serfs of medieval Norman England. It was compiled in 1086-7 under the orders of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-87). The record is unique in European history and is packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details of life in medieval England.
