The Domesday (Doomsday) Book including bibliographies
Date Submitted: 12/26/2004 17:30:55
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 3 pages (836 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 3 pages (836 words)
During the last years of his reign, King William (the Conqueror) had his power threatened from a number of quarters. The greatest threats came from King Canute of Denmark and King Olaf of Norway. In the Eleventh Century, part of the taxes raised went into a fund called the Danegeld, which was kept to buy off marauding Danish armies.
One of the most likely reasons for the record to be commissioned, was for William to …
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…now being taken."
The mass of evidence produced was written down in Latin - as was the survey as a whole - and this was then sorted several times until it could be put into counties, landholders, hundreds or wapentakes, and manors.
Bibliography:
Encyclopedia. "Domesday Book." May 1981. January 2004. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/d/domesday.asp
excerpts from the Domesday book were taken by..
Sue, Lisa. "Amazon Book Review." August 1999. January 2004. http://www.amazon.com
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