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Domesday Book, Doomsday Book n
(Historical Terms) History the record of a survey of the land of England carried out by the commissioners of William I in 1086 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations Domesday Book [ˈduːmzdeɪˌbʊk] N the Domesday Book → el Domesday Book(libro del registro catastral realizado en Inglaterra en 1086) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The first records managers may have been the owners, authors, or custodians of such ancient works as Sumerian clay tablets, the Rosetta stone, the pyramids' hieroglyphs papyrus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Domesday Book. This census was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The great post-Conquest 'census,' Domesday Book, providing our single greatest repository of social and economic data about the kingdom, demonstrates this, though not without equivocation: Pelteret shows the ambiguity and the nonutiliry of this collection of documents when we are looking for the remnants of true slavery (Domesday's servi were precisely that--slaves). |
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