Domesday : Book of Judgement /
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| Author / Creator: | Harvey, Sally (Historian), author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Description: | xx, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10092779 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Table
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliographical Note
- Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- I. The Making of Domesday Book
- 1. The English Context: The 'Book of Winchester' and the Domus Dei
- The Winchester heritage
- Edward the Confessor and Winchester
- The import of Winchester
- Domus Dei
- A royal writing office?
- Expertise in the regions
- Records
- Winchester, the bishops, and the Treasury
- 2. The Architects of the Inquiry: The Bishops and the Royal Clerks
- The role of the bishops
- Continuity, expertise, and the Lotharingian connection
- The king's New Men
- Land pleas and Domesday commissioners
- 3. Who Wrote Domesday? Resources and Expertise in the Localities
- The landholders' written returns
- The local communities
- The shire
- The hundred, the wapentake, and the Domesday jurors
- Pressures on the men of the shire, hundred, and vill
- Hundred versus landholder as suppliers of information
- 4. Who Wrote Domesday? The Returns and the Book
- Defining the circuits
- The role of the Domesday commissioners
- Regional Domesdays
- The dare of Great Domesday
- The order of Great Domesday's inscription
- The Great Domesday scribe and his scriptorium
- 5. The Mastermind
- Personality and anonymity in Domesday
- Robert, bishop of Hereford 1079-95
- Samson, bishop of Worcester 1096-1112
- William of St Calais, bishop of Durham 1080-1096
- Osmund, chancellor 1070-8, bishop of Salisbury 1078-1099
- Rannulf Flambard, bishop of Durham 1099-1128
- The Domesday connection
- Appendix: Samson and Rannulf
- II. The Purposes of the Inquiry and the Book
- 6. Coinage, the Treasury, and the 'Exchequer'
- The complexity of crown receipts in the eleventh century
- Methods of payment in coin and silver in Domesday
- 1. Payment by counting
- 2. Payment by weight
- 3. The assay and Treasury practices
- Renovatio, the Treasury, and the hundred
- Mint taxation: De Moneta and Monetagium
- Coinage and trading policies
- The 'Exchequer' and Winchester
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Gold payments in Domesday
- Appendix 2. Assaying, blanching, and ingots
- Appendix 3. An interpreted translation of silver payment phrases
- 7. The Valor: The Definition and Import of Values in Domesday
- The central questions and some interpretations
- The beneficiaries
- Problems of terminology and time
- Who were the valuers? Who received the value?
- The role of shire and hundred
- The landholders
- Domesday procedures
- The constituents of the value
- The demesne
- The demesne livestock
- Rents and dues
- Leases and other agreements
- Renders and reeves
- Values, renders, and estimates
- Summary and conclusion
- 8. Domesday and Taxation
- The geld
- The assessment and collection of geld under William I before 1086
- Fiscal exemptions and Domesday's novel dimension
- Ploughlands
- The public burdens
- Military manpower
- Fortress-work
- Bridge-work
- Cartage and transport
- Domesday's aftermath and fiscal exemption
- Conclusion: Domesday, taxation, and governance
- 9. 'The Checking': The Inquest of Sheriffs and Other Royal Office-Holders
- The sheriffs' returns: The boroughs and the problem
- The boroughs and 'the Checking'
- 'The Checking' in the landed sector
- 'The Checking' of key royal officials
- Barons of the Exchequer?
- Conclusion
- Sequel and rebellion
- III. Domesday and the Day of Judgement
- 10. The Book of the Day of Judgement
- Land-grants and Domesday
- The ceremonies of land transfer
- Relics and courts
- Oaths and judicial ordeals
- Anathema and judgement
- Harold's trial by battle
- William's claim to be king of the English
- 'A plague on both their houses'
- TRE and tenurial hiatus
- The Danish crisis and Domesday: Time for Paxs?
- Post mortem
- Domesday's aftermath
- Epithet or epitaph?
- Index
