Domesday: The Inquest and the Book

ISBN-13: 9780198208471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str.

David Roffe

Opis

Domesday Book is the oldest and most precious of the public records, but historians still disagree on its purpose. In arguing that the writing of Domesday Book was no part of the Domesday survey, this book proposed a solution to a riddle that will change our perception of the Norman Conquest and Norman kingship.

Recenzje

His book has much more in it than his main thesis that Domesday Book was an afterthought... Roffe exhorts us to abandon myth and anachronistic historical baggage... David Roffe offers us a fresh look at some obstinate problems about a justly famous medieval manuscript.