Domesday explorer is software which allows you to explore great domesday, searching an updated phillimore english translation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Tr introduction the first approach to a modern assessment roll or cataster is the well known. Visitors to the website will now be able to search a place name, see the index entry made for the manor, town, city or village and, for a fee, download the appropriate page. Domesday book the national archives, kew, london domesday book, from historic byways and high. Domesday book by geoffrey martin, 9780141439945, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Domesday86 is a project that aims to recreate the experience of the original bbc domesday project using modern hardware and software. Volume one, known as great or exchequer domesday, is an abbreviated version of the returns from 32 counties. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. Domesday book, compiled in 1086 at the behest of william the conqueror, has been described as the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation david hume and viewed by historians as the final act of the norman conquest. This document has been created by the history data service and is based on information supplied by the depositor sn. This illuminating book provides an account of a century and a half of english medieval history, beginning with the compilation of the domesday book and culminating in the issue of the magna carta and the subsequent civil war. The domesday book, our earliest public record, is a unique survey of the value and ownership of lands and resources in late 11th century england.
An electronic transcription of the translation of domesday book for 33 counties yorkshire is omitted for reasons originally published by phillimore 197586 and edited by john morris and others. A complete translation domesday book is one of the most famous documents in english history. David hume but a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price. Domesday book has been described as the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.
Domesday 1986 now available online, after a long effort to save it from outdated videodiscs, the bbc domesday project aimed to record the state of britain 900 years after the original domesday survey. Great domesday contains most of the counties of england and was written by one scribe and checked by a second. The great domesday book, which records 31 of these counties, ends abruptly at east anglia, perhaps due to the death of the king in 1087. The unabridged, complete translation of the domesday book, one of the most important documents ever put together in the english language. The text of domesday book, the record of the great survey of england completed in 1086 executed for william i of england, was first edited by abraham farley in the 1770s.
The results of this survey were written into domesday book. Little domesday book ldb, which covers norfolk, suffolk and essex. The first, called little domesday, covers essex, norfolk, and suffolk. Facsimile of the part relating to norfork by james, henry, sir, 18031877. Chichester, 19741992 the english translations for the great domesday counties, together with images of the latin text, are available in searchable form on cd, known as domesday explorer, published by phillimore and co. The text has been tagged with over 500,000 codes, and a powerful search engine lets you easily find entries of interest, map them, display the facsimile and the translation, along with indexes of places and names. To see full names of counties hold your mouse over the name. Translation, databases and scholarly commentary, 1086 bibliography this is not a reading list for domesday book and is in no way intended to supplant bates, a bibliography of domesday book 1986, which can be supplemented by hallam. Time team s18e10 search for the domesday mill buck mill, somerset series. This map shows every place in domesday that can still be located today. It is not known when exactly domesday book was compiled, but the entire copy of great domesday appears to have been copied out by one person on parchment prepared sheepskin, although six scribes seem to have been used for little domesday. Domesday book also known as domesday, or book of winchester was the record of the great survey of england completed in 1086, executed for william the conqueror. David hume but a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable. Produced under the supervision of the most renowned domesday scholars, this authoritative translation of the complete domesdayoffers a.
Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original latin, together with an index of places and a glossary of terms used. Martin, editors and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A complete translation three volumes by dr ann williams and professor g. The first facsimile edition of the manuscripts was made in a project led by the cartographer henry james in the 1860s. Translation of great domesday book folio 155v oxfordshire of the land of the manor of thame robert holds of the bishop 10 hides. Both are available in the national archives library. The basis of this electronic edition of the text is the translation published by phillimore and edited by john morris 35 volumes, chichester, 197386, with the following modifications. Little domesday, which contains the information for essex, norfolk and suffolk, was probably written first and is the work of at least six scribes. What is known as domesday book is in fact a composite work in two volumes. It records the number of households, the economic resources, who owned the land, and the tax paid to the king, for almost every settlement in england. Poole assesses the social and economic background to the period, the position of the monarchy, progress in education, church reform, and also studies.
William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it. The detailed picture of the english landscape it offers has no equal in any country, while it is valuable not. Translation, databases and scholarly commentary, 1086 bibliography this is not a reading list for domesday book and is in no way intended to supplant bates, a bibliography of domesday book 1986, which can be. Domesday book was compiled in ad 1086 for william the conqueror. In august 2006 the contents of domesday went online, with an english translation of the books latin. The domesday book online contents of the domesday book. The majority of these still exist in some form today. The national archives education service domesday book. Domesday book is one of the most famous documents in english history and arguably in world history. While spending the christmas of 1085 in gloucester. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original latin of domesday book, together with an index of places and a glossary of terms used. Translation of anglosaxon chronicles a full translation of the medieval texts at.
An electronic edition of the text for great domesday was published by phillimore as domesday explorer in 2000, edited by john palmer. Domesday book domesday book was unique in western europe and it set a standard. The anglosaxon chronicle states that planning for the survey was conducted in 1085, and the books colophon states the survey was completed in 1086. In the year 1085, william the conqueror spent christmas at gloucester. The existing literature on this remarkable memorial is so extensive, that it has not appeared advisable to quote largely from it. By contemporaries the whole operation was known as the description of england, but the popular name domesday i. Organizing a vast kingdom the greater domesday book was written, for the most part, by a single scribe with. An english translation of the latin text for most counties was published by. Yarbrough name meaning, family history, family crest.
The detailed picture of the english landscape it offers has no equal in any country, while it is valuable not only in the picture it allows local historians to construct of their area in the eleventh century but also as the foundation document of the national archives. Domesday book is one of the most famous documents in english historyand arguably in world history. Domesday book, the original record or summary of william is survey of england. The page extracts consist of a high quality extract of the settlements entry in the book, a 6 page glossary and a translation into modern english.
From domesday book to magna carta 10871216 the oxford. There are some 418 towns and villages recorded in the domesday book, covering 40 of the old counties of england. When it healed, and jems fears of never being able to play football were. The information collected during the survey was written up in a fair copy, later known as domesday book, which in fact comprises two volumes. The record was compiled in 10861087, a mere twenty years after the norman conquest, at the order of william the conqueror. On this site you will find a growing collection of documentation for the original acornbbc domesday project as well as details of the domesday86 project itself. Domesday book, or, the great survey of england of william the conqueror a.
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