augustus 1086: DOMESDAY BOOK komt in eerste draftversie klaar

The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).



The original Domesday Book has survived over 900 years of English history and is currently housed in a specially made chest at London's Public Record Office in Kew, London. This site has been set up to enable visitors to discover the history of the Domesday Book, to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation, and provide information and links on related topics.

http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/ (20061226)

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19740096 GALBRAITH Vivian Hunter Domesday Book: Its place in administrative history. XXVIII+193 pp. With fold. facs. Sel. bibliogr.,index. Hardcover. Or. cloth, in dustj. Fold-out illustration from Domesday Book as frontispiece. Between the battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest in 1066 and the Domesday Inquest twenty years later (1086) the aristocratic English land-owning class was expropriated in favour of a French-speaking, fedual society which for more than two centuries substituted Latin for Anglo-Saxon as the language of archives, and French for English as the spoken language. It is this catastrophic revolution which was reduced to writing in Domesday Book, and at once became the "blue print" of the new order, and its title deeds. It was thus a forward-looking document whose importance in medieval royal administration has been gravely underestimated by nineteenth-century historians whose chief interest lay in the light it shed upon the Anglo-Saxon past. This reappraisal of the PURPOSE of Domesday Book was a new sound and this is what makes this book important. Vivian Galbraith (1889-1976) was a historian and HE was born in Sheffield (GBR).