Domesday book and beyond : three essays in the early history of England

by Frederic William Maitland ; foreword by J.C. Holt

'Why still read it? Why should scholars consult it and undergraduates study it? The plan answer is that still after ninety years remains the greatest single book on English medieval history': thus J. C. Holt in his foreword to this new impression of one of the classic historical texts in any language. In three extended essays Maitland exploits the information in Domesday to analyse and reconstruct the society, law, government, economy and even something of the mental and imaginative world of early medieval England. Essay I examines the nature of English society in 1066 and how, by 1086, this had changed. The second essay explores pre-Conquest England, stretching back through the Anglo-Saxon law codes and land-books to the English settlement, its social structure and administrative geography. Essay III uses an exhaustive discussion of the hide (that 'dreary old question') to look again at methods of assessment and measurement, and their relationship to the wealth and resources of England; in this Maitland displays, in addition to his customary lucidity, subtlety and enormous powers of historical insight, very considerable statistical competence, of an order hitherto foreign to English historical writing. In his foreword Professor Holt looks afresh at this monument of medieval scholarship, assessing its place both within the wider context of historical study, and also, more specifically, its continued contribution to that debate on the nature of Domesday Book with which scholars have been preoccupied for nearly one hundred years. That Maitland's hypotheses and conclusions should still be central to such a debate is not the least remarkable feature of this extraordinary book.

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[目次]

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Essay I. Domesday Book: 1. Plan of the survey
  • 2. The Serfs
  • 3. The Villeins
  • 4. The Sokemen
  • 5. Sake and Soke
  • 6. The manor
  • 7. Manor and vill
  • 8. The feudal superstructure
  • 9. The boroughs
  • Essay II. England Before the Conquest: 10. Book-land and the land-book
  • 11. Book-land and folk-land
  • 12. Sake and Soke
  • 13. Book-land and loan-land
  • 14. The growth of seignorial power
  • 15. The village community
  • Essay III. The Hide: 16. Measures and fields
  • 17. Domesday statistics
  • 18. Beyond domesday.

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書名 Domesday book and beyond : three essays in the early history of England
著作者等 Maitland, Frederic William
Maitland F. W.
シリーズ名 Cambridge paperback library
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1987
版表示 2 Rev ed
ページ数 xxvii, 527 p., [2] leaves of plates
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0521349184
NCID BA03659328
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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