Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) |
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| Title: | Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) |
| Author: | G. Martin
Ann Williams |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 24 September, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0141439947 / 9780141439945 |
| List Price: | $30.00 |
| You Save: | $10.20 |
| Amazon Price: | $19.80 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price. Penguin's edition will change that. Compiled in a matter of months in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, Domesday quickly established itself as document of immense legal importance. It was last consulted for legal precedent in 1982. It is also the most remarkable portrait of England in thelate eleventh century. The publication of a complete translation of Great and Little Domesday is already being eagerly anticipated by historians. There are advance quotes from Norman Davies, Michael Wood, Roy Strong and Antonia Fraser.
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Customer Reviews:
• A Landmark Work, A Little On The Sleepy Side
12 December, 2003
Simply the most boring uninteresting book ever printedInot the fault of this editor by the way, the book was a government document). Although a wonderful window into English history and our heritage of property rights this book is a terribly boring and epically vicious account of nothing, expect a recording of every minor person and land ownership in England. An important piece of western heritage but maybe not bed time reading. Five stars for translation and beauty/presentation.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Domesday Book Is Record Of 11th Century England
06 November, 2006
The Penguin Classics edition of the Domesday Book is an English translation of the great survey of England Commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086-1087 ACE. This survey looms large in the study of medieval England after the Normal invasion of 1066, and serves as a baseline for the study of the Black Death in England, as well as the study of the social and economics of 11th century England. Edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin, the complete translation is an important resource for the study of medieval Europe. This 1992 Penguin edition is an affordable treasure.
- Amazon Customer Review
• For Some Of Us, This Is Great Bedtime Reading . . .
03 December, 2003
It takes a particular sort of reader to rejoice at the prospect of an all-new translation of a 900-year-old government-sponsored economic and agricultural census. I'm well acquainted with the Phillimore 35-volume edition published in the 1970s, and I own Finn's guide to it, but this new effort is a lovely piece of work -- and it's portable enough to actually carry around with you. The Alecto translation was itself based on the Victoria History of the Counties of England version, but much improved and updated. This volume also omits the marginalia, which is too bad, but it does interpolate a great many bracketed words to fill the original scribe's frequent elisions. There's also an extremely thorough Index of Places -- but not one of persons, a glaring omission, since so many larger landholders possessed estates throughout a county, or even in numerous counties. Nevertheless, an excellent publication, and at a very reasonable price.
- Amazon Customer Review
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