Domesday 1,000 miles on foot through the England of the Norman Conquest
Date: 22 October 2026 | Posted by: BeMyLove
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Title: Domesday 1,000 miles on foot through the England of the Norman Conquest
Author: Max Adams
Category: Travel, History, Ancient History, Adventure & Literary Travel
Language: English | 279 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781803284965
Description:
When King William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate what was owed to him. The manuscript record of the resulting 'Great Survey' is not just a tax record, but a unique window onto the structure of English administration and economy before and immediately after the Norman Conquest: its shires and hundreds, acres, hides and townships. The Domesday Book's woods, livestock, mills, fisheries, churches, ploughs and salt pans are the furniture of a culture and its economy – the legacy of Anglo-Saxon England.
In Domesday, Max Adams retreads the path taken in 1085 by King William I's agents, taking us on foot through the very sites covered by one of the most iconic documents of English history. In this fascinating new history, Adams explores this unique portrait of a land and its people, bringing the past into intimate contact with the present.
Adams brings us face to face with this legacy in his...
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