Domesday: book of judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book. Sally Harvey depicts the Domesday Book as the written evidence of a potentially insecure conquest successfully transforming itself, by a combination of administrative insight and military might, into a permanent establishment. William I used the Domesday Inquiry to contain the new establishment and consolidate their landholding revolution within a strict fiscal and tenurial framework, with checks and balances to prevent the king's followers from taking more powers and assets than they had been allocated. In this way, the survey served as a conciliatory gesture between the conquerors and the conquered, as William I came to realise that, faced with the threat to his rule from the Danes, he needed England's native populations more than they needed him. Yes, the overlying theme of the Domesday Book is Judgment: every class of society had reason to regard the Survey's methodical and often pitiless proceedings as both a literal and a metaphorical day of account. In this volume, Sally Harvey considers the Anglo-Saxon background and the architects of the survey: the bishops, royal clerks, sheriffs, jurors, and landholders who contributed to Domesday's content and scope. She also discusses at length the core information in the Survey: coinage, revenues from landholding, fiscal concessions, and taxation, as well as some central tenurial issues. She draws the conclusion that the record, whilst consolidating William's position as king of the English, also laid the foundations for the twelfth-century treasury and exchequer. The volume newly argues that the Domesday survey also became an inquest into individual sheriffs and officials, thereby laying a foundation for reinterpreting the size of towns in England. -- Provided by publisher. Read more...
Abstract: Harvey studies the aims of the makers of the unique Domesday survey, and how far these were realised in the data produced, placing them in their administrative context, and pointing to immediate political repercussions in the following reign. She also examines the connotations and import of Domesday's mesmeric name. Read more...

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Sally Harvey

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

OUP Oxford

Oxford University Press USA, Oxford, England, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1st ed, Oxford, England, 2014

Illustrated, 2014

1, PS, 2014

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Cover 1
Domesday: Book of Judgement 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Preface 8
Contents 10
List of Figures 13
Table 13
List of Abbreviations 14
Bibliographical Note 20
Note on Terminology 22
Introduction 24
1: The English Context: The ‘Book of
Winchester’ and the Domus Dei 30
THE WINCHESTER HERITAGE 32
Edward the Confessor and Winchester 36
THE IMPORT OF WINCHESTER 38
DOMUS DEI 40
A ROYAL WRITING OFFICE? 42
EXPERTISE IN THE REGIONS 46
RECORDS 48
WINCHESTER, THE BISHOPS, AND THE TREASURY 50
2: The Architects of the Inquiry:
The Bishops and the Royal Clerks 55
THE ROLE OF THE BISHOPS 56
CONTINUITY, EXPERTISE, AND THE
LOTHARINGIAN CONNECTION 59
THE KING’S NEW MEN 64
LAND PLEAS AND DOMESDAY COMMISSIONERS 72
3: Who Wrote Domesday? Resources
and Expertise in the Localities 79
THE LANDHOLDERS’ WRITTEN RETURNS 81
THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES 86
The shire 86
The shire and the sheriff 86
Documents in the shires: Fiscal lists 90
Bishops in the shire court 94
Others of the shire 95
The hundred, the wapentake, and the Domesday jurors 97
The Domesday jurors 99
Function in the Inquiry 100
Pressures on the men of the shire, hundred, and vill 102
HUNDRED VERSUS LANDHOLDER AS SUPPLIERS
OF INFORMATION 106
4: Who Wrote Domesday?
The Returns and the Book 110
DEFINING THE CIRCUITS 110
THE ROLE OF THE DOMESDAY COMMISSIONERS 113
REGIONAL DOMESDAYS 115
THE DATE OF GREAT DOMESDAY 119
THE ORDER OF GREAT DOMESDAY’S INSCRIPTION 123
THE GREAT DOMESDAY SCRIBE AND HIS SCRIPTORIUM 124
5:
The Mastermind 130
PERSONALITY AND ANONYMITY IN DOMESDAY 130
ROBERT, BISHOP OF HEREFORD 1079–95 132
SAMSON, BISHOP OF WORCESTER 1096–1112 134
WILLIAM OF ST CALAIS, BISHOP OF DURHAM 1080–1096 135
OSMUND, CHANCELLOR 1070–8, BISHOP OF
SALISBURY 1078–1099 137
RANNULF FLAMBARD, BISHOP OF DURHAM 1099–1128 138
THE DOMESDAY CONNECTION 147
APPENDIX:
Samson and Rannulf 154
6:
Coinage, the Treasury, and the ‘Exchequer’ 156
THE COMPLEXITY OF CROWN RECEIPTS IN THE
ELEVENTH CENTURY 159
Methods of payment in coin and silver in Domesday 159
1. Payment by counting 161
2. Payment by weight 161
3. The assay and Treasury practices 163
RENOVATIO, THE TREASURY, AND THE HUNDRED 166
MINT TAXATION: DE MONETA AND MONETAGIUM 170
COINAGE AND TRADING POLICIES 172
THE ‘EXCHEQUER’ AND WINCHESTER 174
CONCLUSION 175
APPENDIX 1:
Gold payments in Domesday 177
APPENDIX 2:
Assaying, blanching, and ingots 180
1. ALBUS AND CANDIDUS 180
2. BLANCUS 180
3. PAYMENTS ‘SMELTED AND WEIGHED’ 181
APPENDIX 3:
An interpreted translation of silver payment phrases 183
7: The Valor: The Definition and Import
of Values in Domesday 184
THE CENTRAL QUESTIONS AND SOME INTERPRETATIONS 185
THE BENEFICIARIES 188
PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY AND TIME 190
WHO WERE THE VALUERS? WHO RECEIVED THE VALUE? 191
The role of shire and hundred 191
The landholders 193
Domesday procedures 197
THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE VALUE 198
The demesne 199
The demesne livestock 205
Rents and dues 209
Ancillary assets 215
Leases and other agreements 216
RENDERS AND REEVES 223
VALUES, RENDERS, AND ESTIMATES 225
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 228
8:
Domesday and Taxation 233
THE GELD 233
THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF GELD
UNDER WILLIAM I BEFORE 1086 235
FISCAL EXEMPTIONS AND DOMESDAY’S
NOVEL DIMENSION 244
Exemption or cash in hand? 245
Ploughlands 246
THE PUBLIC BURDENS 250
Military manpower 251
Fortress-work 252
Bridge-work 252
Cartage and transport 253
DOMESDAY’S AFTERMATH AND FISCAL EXEMPTION 255
CONCLUSION: DOMESDAY, TAXATION,
AND GOVERNANCE 257
9: ‘The Checking’: The Inquest of Sheriffs
and Other Royal Office-Holders 262
THE SHERIFFS’ RETURNS: THE BOROUGHS
AND THE PROBLEM 262
THE BOROUGHS AND ‘THE CHECKING’ 265
‘THE CHECKING’ IN THE LANDED SECTOR 273
‘THE CHECKING’ OF KEY ROYAL OFFICIALS 282
BARONS OF THE EXCHEQUER? 288
CONCLUSION 289
SEQUEL AND REBELLION 291
10:
The Book of the Day of Judgement 294
LAND-GRANTS AND DOMESDAY 296
The ceremonies of land transfer 299
RELICS AND COURTS 301
OATHS AND JUDICIAL ORDEALS 303
ANATHEMA AND JUDGEMENT 310
HAROLD’S TRIAL BY BATTLE 314
WILLIAM’S CLAIM TO BE KING OF THE ENGLISH 321
‘A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES’ 322
TRE AND TENURIAL HIATUS 327
THE DANISH CRISIS AND DOMESDAY: TIME FOR PAXS? 331
POST MORTEM 345
DOMESDAY’S AFTERMATH 346
EPITHET OR EPITAPH? 349
Index 352

Domesday: Book Of Judgement Provides A Unique Study Of The Extraordinary Eleventh-century Survey, The Domesday Book. Sally Harvey Depicts The Domesday Book As The Written Evidence Of A Potentially Insecure Conquest Successfully Transforming Itself, By A Combination Of Administrative Insight And Military Might, Into A Permanent Establishment. William I Used The Domesday Inquiry To Contain The New Establishment And Consolidate Their Landholding Revolution Within A Strict Fiscal And Tenurial Framework, With Checks And Balances To Prevent The King's Followers From Taking More Powers And Assets Than They Had Been Allocated. In This Way, The Survey Served As A Conciliatory Gesture Between The Conquerors And The Conquered, As William I Came To Realise That, Faced With The Threat To His Rule From The Danes, He Needed England's Native Populations More Than They Needed Him. Yes, The Overlying Theme Of The Domesday Book Is Judgment: Every Class Of Society Had Reason To Regard The Survey's Methodical And Often Pitiless Proceedings As Both A Literal And A Metaphorical Day Of Account. In This Volume, Sally Harvey Considers The Anglo-saxon Background And The Architects Of The Survey: The Bishops, Royal Clerks, Sheriffs, Jurors, And Landholders Who Contributed To Domesday's Content And Scope. She Also Discusses At Length The Core Information In The Survey: Coinage, Revenues From Landholding, Fiscal Concessions, And Taxation, As Well As Some Central Tenurial Issues. She Draws The Conclusion That The Record, Whilst Consolidating William's Position As King Of The English, Also Laid The Foundations For The Twelfth-century Treasury And Exchequer. The Volume Newly Argues That The Domesday Survey Also Became An Inquest Into Individual Sheriffs And Officials, Thereby Laying A Foundation For Reinterpreting The Size Of Towns In England. -- Provided By Publisher. Introduction -- I: The Making Of Domesday Book -- The English Context: The 'book Of Winchester' And The Domus Dei -- The Architects Of The Inquiry: The Bishops Of The Royal Clerks -- Who Wrote Domesday? Resources And Expertise In The Localities -- Who Wrote Domesday? The Returns And The Book -- The Mastermind -- Ii: The Purposes Of The Inquiry And The Book -- Coinage, The Treasury, And The 'exchequer' -- The Valor: The Definition And Import And Values In Domesday -- Domesday And Taxation -- 'the Checking': The Inquest Of Sheriffs And Other Royal Office-holders -- Iii: Domesday And The Day Of Judgement --the Book Of The Day Of Judgement. Sally Harvey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Domesday: Book of Judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book. Sally Harvey depicts the Domesday Book as the written evidence of a potentially insecure conquest successfully transforming itself, by a combination of administrative insight and military might, into a permanent establishment.
William I used the Domesday Inquiry to contain the new establishment and consolidate their landholding revolution within a strict fiscal and tenurial framework, with checks and balances to prevent the king's followers from taking more powers and assets than they had been allocated. In this way, the survey served as a conciliatory gesture between the conquerors and the conquered, as William I came to realize that, faced with the threat to his rule from the Danes, he needed England's native populations more than they needed him. Yes, the overlying theme of the Domesday Book is Judgment: every class of society had reason to regard the Survey's methodical and often pitiless proceedings as both a literal and a metaphorical day of account.
In this volume, Sally Harvey considers the Anglo-Saxon background and the architects of the Survey: the bishops, royal clerks, sheriffs, jurors, and landholders who contributed to Domesday's content and scope. She also discusses at length the core information in the Survey: coinage, revenues from landholding, fiscal concessions, and taxation, as well as some central tenurial issues. She draws the conclusion that the record, whilst consolidating William's position as king of the English, also laid the foundations for the twelfth-century treasury and exchequer. The volume newly argues that the Domesday survey also became an inquest into individual sheriffs and officials, thereby laying a foundation for reinterpreting the size of towns in England.
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A study of the great 11th-century survey of England, the 'Domesday Book', examining the compilation and content of the survey, as well as how it laid the foundations for the 12th-century economy

2015-12-23