Domesday Book: a Complete Translation.(Book Review)

From: History Today | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin

Penguin Books, 1436pp 30 [pounds sterling].

ISBN 0-141-00523-8

Domesday Explorer CD-Rom

Phillimore 350 [pounds sterling] for use on one machine; Local area licence 700 [pounds sterling]; wide area licence 1,000 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86077-163-7

FAT CATS, LAW BREAKERS AND PROPERTY SPECULATORS, according to the compilers of this CD-Rom, are all to be found in Domesday Book, but until now historians have probably not seen that great record in those terms. There can surely be no doubt at all of its crucial importance, ...

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