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100 1 _aMaitland, Frederic William,
_d1850-1906
245 1 0 _aDomesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2013
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2013-07-19
505 0 _aDomesday book -- England before the Conquest -- The hide.
508 _aE-text prepared by KD Weeks, Irma Spehar, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://archive.org/details/toronto)
520 _a"Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England" by Frederic William Maitland is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The work explores key themes and documents related to early English law and society, particularly focusing on the significance and implications of the Domesday Book—a comprehensive survey commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085. The opening of the book presents a detailed introduction to the Domesday Book, describing its creation and its purpose as a tax record rather than a comprehensive legal document. Maitland discusses the methods used by royal commissioners to gather data regarding landholdings and the various classes of people that inhabited England during this period. He highlights the complexities of understanding the legal relationships and historical context of the land and its occupants, setting the stage for a deeper examination of feudalism and its societal ramifications in England. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aManuscripts, Medieval -- England
653 _aGreat Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
653 _aGreat Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154
653 _aEngland -- Economic conditions -- 1066-1485
653 _aDomesday book
653 _aLand tenure -- England -- History
653 _aFeudalism -- England -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43255
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