The Domesday Book
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a vast survey of England and Wales completed in 1086.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a vast survey of the land and property of much of England and Wales completed in 1086. Twenty years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror sent officials to most of his new territories to compile a list of land holdings and to gather information about settlements, the people who lived there and even their farm animals. Almost without parallel in European history, the resulting document was of immense importance for many centuries, and remains a central source for medieval historians.
With:
Stephen Baxter
Reader in Medieval History at Kings College London
Elisabeth van Houts
Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge
David Bates
Professorial Fellow in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia
Producer: Thomas Morris.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
Stephen Baxter at King's College London
Elisabeth van Houts at the University of Cambridge
David Bates at the University of East Anglia
Domesday: the Inquest and the Book - Reviews in History
READING LIST:
David Bates, William the Conqueror (The History Press, 2004)
David Bates, The Normans and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2013)
J. Crick and E. van Houts (eds.), A Social History of England 900-1200 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
D. Crouch and K. Thompson (eds.), Normandy and its Neighbours 900-1250: Essays for David Bates (Brepols Publishers, 2011), especially ‘Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England’ by Elisabeth van Houts
George Garnett, The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Elizabeth Hallam, Domesday Book Through Nine Centuries (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1986)
Katharine Keats-Rohan, Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 – I. Domesday Book (Boydell Press, 1999)
Katharine Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 – II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum (Boydell Press, 2002)
David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book (Oxford University Press, 2000)
E. M. Tyler (ed.), Conceptualizing Multilingualism in Medieval England c.800–c.1250 (Brepols Publishers, 2012), especially ‘The Making of Domesday Book and the Languages of Lordship in Conquered England’ by Stephen Baxter
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | Stephen Baxter |
| Interviewed Guest | Elisabeth van Houts |
| Interviewed Guest | David Bates |
| Producer | Thomas Morris |
Broadcasts
- Thu 17 Apr 2014 09:00BBC Radio 4
- Thu 17 Apr 2014 21:30BBC Radio 4
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