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The Domesday Book
Manage episode 165037745 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a vast survey of the land and property of much of England and Wales completed in 1086. Twenty years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror sent officials to most of his new territories to compile a list of land holdings and to gather information about settlements, the people who lived there and even their farm animals. Almost without parallel in European history, the resulting document was of immense importance for many centuries, and remains a central source for medieval historians.
With:
Stephen Baxter Reader in Medieval History at Kings College London
Elisabeth van Houts Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge
David Bates Professorial Fellow in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia
Producer: Thomas Morris.
1119 episodes
Manage episode 165037745 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a vast survey of the land and property of much of England and Wales completed in 1086. Twenty years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror sent officials to most of his new territories to compile a list of land holdings and to gather information about settlements, the people who lived there and even their farm animals. Almost without parallel in European history, the resulting document was of immense importance for many centuries, and remains a central source for medieval historians.
With:
Stephen Baxter Reader in Medieval History at Kings College London
Elisabeth van Houts Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge
David Bates Professorial Fellow in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia
Producer: Thomas Morris.
1119 episodes
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