Making Domesday
Intelligent Power in Conquered England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 May 2025
- ISBN 9780198850120
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1072 pages
- Size 254x180x60 mm
- Weight 2324 g
- Language English 660
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Short description:
Domesday is the most famous and important historical record in the nation's archives, the final product of a survey of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086. Making Domesday offers a fundamental reinterpretation of how and why it was made, exploring its conception, conduction, effectiveness, and impact.
MoreLong description:
Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The book addresses big questions about pre-modern government, written records, and the use of intelligence in both senses: the minds behind the planning and execution of Domesday, and the information about England that Domesday gathered. It characterizes Exon as the surviving part of the 'working papers' of one of the writing offices that over a period of ten weeks in summer 1086 dealt with all seven 'circuits' (regional groupings of shires) of the Domesday survey. The circuit offices had the task of recasting the manorial descriptions assembled in an earlier stage of the survey into an interim form intended for further redaction as Great Domesday Book by rearrangement, rewording, and abbreviation. A new deep understanding of the codicology and palaeography of Exon underpins every part of the analysis, and offers a model of documentary production for royal government at an exceptionally early period in western Europe. Part I describes and analyses each Exon text in unprecedented detail; Part II places Domesday in context and in broad comparative perspective, ranging across and beyond the Latin West. The dual approach provides a new interpretation of Domesday and a deeper understanding of both the Domesday survey and Domesday Book. It emerges that the survey was even more complex than we had dared to imagine, involving the production of different kinds of text intended to meet a range of fiscal and political needs. It is also clear that the survey was immediately effective, transforming the politics of land in a newly conquered society. Domesday has always been thought awesome, as its very name shows; Making Domesday contends that it was also a feat of intelligent government deployed by an aggressive and ambitious regime. As such it speaks to broader concerns with the colonial domination of conquered societies through the purposeful collection of systematic statistical information.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Exon: The Earliest Manuscript of the Domesday Survey
The Anatomy of Exon
The Form and Shape of the Manuscript
The Exon Geld Accounts and the Great Geld of 1085-1086
Exon Fiefs I: The First Draft of Domesday
Exon Fiefs II: The Lists of Hundreds
Exon Fiefs III: The Sources of Information
Exon Fiefs IV: Compiling the Fiefs Booklets
Terrae Occupatae: Recording Unauthorized Tenures
The Fief Summaries
Writing Great Domesday Book
Inside the Exon Office: The Making of Domesday Imagined
Part II: Placing Domesday
1085 and the Invasion Threat
The Significance of King Henry I's Pipe Roll
Estate Management and Written Records in England and on the Continent Before Domesday
Domesday and the Geld
The Profits of Royal Lordship
Title to Property in the Age of the Great Confiscation
The Men Behind the Survey
Part III: Conclusions
Making Domesday
Intelligent Power in Conquered England
