Decoding Domesday

"Decoding Domesday proposes a reassessment of Domesday Book which has profound implications for an understanding of the society and economy of medieval England. Hitherto all modern accounts of the period have assumed that the Domesday inquest was a comprehensive survey of lords and their lands and that it thus reveals the economic underpinning of power in the late eleventh century. David Roffe rejects that assumption, believing that in 1086 matters of taxation and service were at issue, and that the survey was undertaken to illuminate these concerns. The various items of Domesday data are re-examined in these terms, and fresh light is cast on longstanding Domesday conundrums."--BOOK JACKET.Roffe, David is the author of 'Decoding Domesday ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781843833079 and ISBN 1843833077.