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DOMESDAY BOOK (AS A SOURCE (OMISSIONS (Women (Some female landholders -…
DOMESDAY BOOK
AS A SOURCE
DEMOGRAPHIC INFO
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Not a big range - rich people, where they held land and how much
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~7000 named - hard to be sure, not many surnames and repetition
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Manorial framework stays same, big changes in who holds land
Problems
Roffe - incomplete, inaccurate and inconsistent
Roffe - north - Harrying, trial, dif economy and society
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PURPOSE
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Land holders get security of tenure - numerous claims. Litigation evidence esp Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
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SURVEY
ORGANISATION
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Well presented and innovative - columns, use of highlighting in red
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Different circuits
Some not included in main book e.g. Winchester, London, v north
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Each major landowner to write list of properties, sources of revenue and who owned it in 1066
Sources of revenue inc. plough teams (most wealth arable, what most interested in), fisheries, churches, mills
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DEBATE ON LITERACY
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Treated as starting point of English royal literacy by those who study post-1066 (Clanchy) but those who study before argue (Campbell)
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Never anything like it in England before, unusual in Europe in MA
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