Domesday Studies

`An important book... will undoubtedly remain a milestone for a long time to come.' Journal of Historical Geography`A scholarly feast... a milestone in the history and historiography of medieval England. Its essays are without exception authoritative and well-written and it indicates not only the progress made in Domesday studies in the last hundred years but also the continuing significance of the pioneer work of the great Domesday scholars such as Maitland and Galbraith.' Robin Butlin Progress in Human Geography. These studies are a signpost for the development of Domesday studies in the next decades; they are essential reading and a necessary work of reference for all interested in the subject of Domesday Book. They include much that is new istory geography place-name studies numismatics palaeography and topography.The papers were originally presented at the Domesday Novo-centenary Conference of the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of British Geographers held at Winchester in 1986. The contributors are:M. Biddle (Christ Church Oxford)Early Norman WinchesterW.J. Blair (The Queen's College Oxford)Local Churches in Domesday Book and BeforeJ. Campbell (Worcester College Oxford)Some Agents and Agencies of the late Anglo-Saxon StateP. Chaplais (Oxford University)William of Saint-Calais and the Domesday Survey