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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent little used condition. No notes or highlighting. Some very light tanning to page edges. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Anglo-Saxon chronicler’s account of the proceedings of the Domesday commissioners in 1086 makes clear the bias of their investigations. They were sent ‘all over England into every shire … to ascertain how much land and livestock the king himself owned in the country’ and ‘how much each man who was a land- holder here in England had in land and livestock’ so that the shameful fact was that not an ox or a cow or a pig escaped notice in their record. Their prime concern in other words was with a pro- foundly rural world a bias which reflected the realities of eleventh-century England. This was not however the whole truth about England at that time and indeed Domesday Book tells us something about communities which had urban features and occa- sionally about men engaged in other than agricultural occupations. These notices unfortunately are fleeting inconsistent and often enigmatic. (SP)