Domesday
1,000 miles on foot through the England of the Norman Conquest
$49.29
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2027
Summary
The Domesday Book describes the furniture of a culture and its economy – the legacy of Anglo-Saxon England.
When King William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate what was owed to him. The manuscript record of the resulting ‘Great Survey’ is not just a tax record, but a unique window onto the structure of English administration and economy before and immediately after the Norman Conquest: its shires and h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803284989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803284986 |
| Author: | Max Adams |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 158mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
A beautiful book that evokes the English landscape, past and present, and the history of its people. – David Woodman, author of The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
A masterful reimagining of a familiar source that helps us to understand the England of today as much as the turbulent eleventh century. – Dan Jackson, author of The Northumbrians: North East England and its People
Max Adams
Max Adams is a writer, archaeologist, and woodsman whose work explores themes of landscape, knowledge, and human connectedness with the earth. He is the author of The Mercian Chronicles, the bestselling The King in the North, In the Land of Giants, and The First Kingdom. He has lived and worked in the North East of England since 1993.
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