Middle+Ages+Documents


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 * The Domessday Book which is a survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror tells of 11th century England. Made up of two volumes which were the Little Domesday and the Great Domesday told about most of England. It told alot about William and the aristocracy.Also told of social hierachy of England in that time period. In this time most of the land was held by elite minority. Those who were not high enough in the social class were not even named in the book. This book would allow William to see what people owed him, that was because the land was divied into hides and vigates.So he could collect his money he sent men all over England into all the shires to collect the money and see how many hides where in each shire. Then this information was recorded also with the amount of land each person had and put into the survey. When this happend England was then on foward split into 7 circuits. Each circuit consisted of 2 or more counties, within these circuits 3 or 4 officals got the job of collecting information for the king. Williams sheriffs also collect information about each county's manors and men. But when the information was verifed officals summaried them in a abbreviated form of Latin. Then it was put into the 2 volumes of the Domesday book.

//Domesday Book//. N.d. //World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO//. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. . ||