Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Domesday Now: a View from the Stage
- 2 A Digital Latin Domesday
- 3 McLuhan Meets the Master: Scribal Devices in Great Domesday Book
- 4 Non Pascua sed Pastura: the Changing Choice of Terms in Domesday
- 5 Domesday Books? Little Domesday Book Reconsidered
- 6 Hunting the Snark and Finding the Boojum: the Tenurial Revolution Revisited
- 7 A Question of Identity: Domesday Prosopography and the Formation of the Honour of Richmond
- 8 The Episcopal Returns in Domesday
- 9 Geospatial Technologies and the Geography of Domesday England in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Condensing and Abbreviating the Data: Evesham C, Evesham M, and the Breviate 247
- 11 ‘A Deed without a Name’
- 12 Talking to Others and Talking to Itself: Government and the Changing Role of the Records of the Domesday Inquest
- Caroline Thorn: an Appreciation
- Index
Preface and Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Domesday Now: a View from the Stage
- 2 A Digital Latin Domesday
- 3 McLuhan Meets the Master: Scribal Devices in Great Domesday Book
- 4 Non Pascua sed Pastura: the Changing Choice of Terms in Domesday
- 5 Domesday Books? Little Domesday Book Reconsidered
- 6 Hunting the Snark and Finding the Boojum: the Tenurial Revolution Revisited
- 7 A Question of Identity: Domesday Prosopography and the Formation of the Honour of Richmond
- 8 The Episcopal Returns in Domesday
- 9 Geospatial Technologies and the Geography of Domesday England in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Condensing and Abbreviating the Data: Evesham C, Evesham M, and the Breviate 247
- 11 ‘A Deed without a Name’
- 12 Talking to Others and Talking to Itself: Government and the Changing Role of the Records of the Domesday Inquest
- Caroline Thorn: an Appreciation
- Index
Summary
The present volume emanates from a conference entitled ‘Domesday Now’ held at The National Archives on 17 September 2011. After a decade of vigorous debate on the purpose of the Domesday enterprise, it was gratifying to bring together almost all the specialist scholars in the field to take stock of what had been achieved and what had yet to be done. There was no sudden outbreak of agreement. At the end of the day the fault lines that had characterized differing understandings of the Domesday inquest and Domesday Book remained as visible as ever. However, a consensus had emerged on the way forward. It became clear that there was no prospect of resolving the issues raised without a new edition of the Domesday texts. The papers presented here provide the intellectual underpinning for such a project. Six of the seven read on the day have been revised for this publication; the rest have been especially commissioned to complement them. Together they cover almost all the major areas of disagreement. Sadly the late Nicholas Brooks was unable to complete his chapter on the Domesday Monachorum before his death in 2014.
We thank Elizabeth Hallam-Smith, a former keeper of Domesday Book, for chairing the conference and for her unstinting enthusiasm and continuing support for a new edition of Domesday Book. We are also grateful to Jess Nelson and the staff of The National Archives for the smooth running of the conference. The authors in their turn express their thanks to an anonymous reader for several incisive comments. The images from Domesday Book are reproduced with the kind permission of Alecto Historical Editions. Finally, we are indebted to Caroline Palmer of Boydell and Brewer for commissioning the book and Nick Bingham for seeing it through the press.
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- Domesday NowNew Approaches to the Inquest and the Book, pp. xivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016