Introduction
PART I: THE MAKING OF DOMESDAY BOOK
1: The English Context: The 'Book Of Winchester' and The Domus
Dei
2: The Architects of the Inquiry: Bishops and Royal Clerks
3: Who Wrote Domesday Book? Resources and Expertise in the
Localities
4: Who Wrote Domesday Book? The Returns and the Book
5: The Mastermind
PART II: THE PURPOSES OF THE INQUIRY AND THE BOOK
6: Coinage, the Treasury, and 'the Exchequer'
7: The Valor: the Definition and Import of Values in Domesday
8: Domesday and Taxation
9: The 'Checking': the Inquest of Sheriffs and Other Officers
10: The Book of the Day of Judgement
Sally Harvey, sometimes Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, has also written and lectured in the field of Domesday studies and the Norman Conquest for many years, in posts at the universities of Cambridge and Leeds. She is currently an Honorary Fellow at the School of History and Cultures at Birmingham University.
Sally Harvey's half-century of scholarship gives her authority few
have and gives us a richly researched book that takes its place
alongside the essential Domesday texts.
*Alex Burghart, The Times Literary Supplement*
This long-awaited book represents the culmination of a lifetime's
research, and it does not disappoint ... It represents a major
contribution to Domesday scholarship
*Judith A. Green, English Historical Review*
Sally Harvey has written a deeply learned and extremely interesting
book, a remarkable culmination of decades of research and thinking
about Domesday. Reading it is like experiencing an exceptionally
good one-to-one tutorial ... the book's willingness to speculate
joins its immense scholarship, its intelligence of interpretation,
its flashes of novel insight into much-studied topics and texts, to
win the reader, heart as well as mind.
*John Hudson, American Historical Review*
This is a masterful work of scholarship ... Harvey is to be
commended for the rich and complex analysis she provides.
*Speculum*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
