2007-01-07 01:20:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it. While spending the Christmas of 1085 in Gloucester, William "had deep speech with his counsellors and sent men all over England to each shire ... to find out ... what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock, and what it was worth." (Saxon Chronicle) One of the main purposes of the survey was to find out who owned what so they could be taxed on it, and the judgment of the assessors was final — whatever the book said about who owned the property, or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal. It was written in Latin, although there were some vernacular words inserted for native terms with no previous Latin equivalent and the text was highly abbreviated. When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling of Doomsday) in the 12th century, it was to emphasize its definitiveness and authority (the analogy refers to the Christian belief of a Last Judgment).
2007-01-07 01:25:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is it called the 'Domesday' Book?
It was written by an observer of the survey that "there was no single hide nor a yard of land, nor indeed one ox nor one cow nor one pig which was left out". The grand and comprehensive scale on which the Domesday survey took place (see How it was compiled), and the irreversible nature of the information collected led people to compare it to the Last Judgement, or 'Doomsday', described in the Bible, when the deeds of Christians written in the Book of Life were to be placed before God for judgement. This name was not adopted until the late 12th Century.
2007-01-07 01:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling of Doomsday) in the 12th century, it was to emphasize its definitiveness and authority (the analogy refers to the Christian belief of a Last Judgment).
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2007-01-07 01:28:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you think of a better name for it?
2007-01-07 01:25:40 · answer #4 · answered by emeraldisle2222 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was done on a Monday.
2007-01-07 01:35:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE DAY OF DOOM IS NEAR
2007-01-07 01:21:25 · answer #6 · answered by colin050659 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋