By Sally Harvey
William I used the Domesday Inquiry to comprise the hot institution and consolidate their landholding revolution inside a strict financial and tenurial framework, with tests and balances to avoid the king's fans from taking extra powers and resources than that they had been allotted. during this approach, the survey served as a conciliatory gesture among the conquerors and the conquered, as William I got here to grasp that, confronted with the risk to his rule from the Danes, he wanted England's native
populations greater than they wanted him. sure, the overlying subject of the Domesday booklet is Judgment: each type of society had cause to treat the Survey's methodical and infrequently pitiless lawsuits as either a literal and a metaphorical day of account.
In this quantity, Sally Harvey considers the Anglo-Saxon historical past and the architects of the survey: the bishops, royal clerks, sheriffs, jurors, and landholders who contributed to Domesday's content material and scope. She additionally discusses at size the center details within the Survey: coinage, sales from landholding, monetary concessions, and taxation, in addition to a few crucial tenurial matters. She attracts the belief that the checklist, while consolidating William's place as king of the English, also
laid the principles for the twelfth-century treasury and exchequer. the amount newly argues that the Domesday survey additionally grew to become an inquest into person sheriffs and officers, thereby laying a starting place for reinterpreting the scale of cities in England.
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