Reading the Past | Domesday Book: William I's Great Survey @ReadingthePast | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 25 minutes ago.
Today we are going to focus on the most well-known product of the Norman regime’s administrate prowess. We’re going to take a look at the Domesday Book…

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Linked videos and playlists:

“Harrying of the North”: youtu.be/-r84eWNZVwo

Open Access Resources:

Open Domesday: opendomesday.org
Hull Domesday Project: domesdaybook.net


Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Reconstructed View of the Tower of London, Norman Castle with Roman Walls, c.1100 by Ivan Lapper (2002-2003). Held by the Tower of London (reproduced at www.artuk.org)

Map of the English counties surveyed in Domesday Book. Showing Little and Great Domesday and circuits, derived from: Map of England 1086.png by XrysD (2018).

Screenshots from: opendomesday.org

Screenshots from: domesdaybook.net

Screenshots from: https://www-oxforddnb-com/


Quoted texts:

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

David Bates, ODNB entry on William the Conqueror.


Also consulted, were:


Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

#History #Medieval #Norman