Two appendices complete the introductory material.
(75) In the continuing debate over what might have been, had Duke William of Normandy remained on his side of the Channel, and what was, Keats-Rohan finds a clearly positive consequence of the invasion: "certainly the conquest of the most sophisticated state of its time by the most ruthlessly efficient entrepreneurs of the time ensured the future of England as the home of innovation in the science of government." Concluding remarks submit that DB prosopography is both "a history of the conquest and settlement of England" and "the history in microcosm of Normandy and the Normans". In addition to the overall majority who derive from Normandy, attention is paid to the Breton contribution to the Conquest, and to the Continental origins of DB landholders in general. These represent approximately forty percent of the 2,172 landholders occurring in DB which the editor has been able to identify. 1-117) considers Domesday Book (DB) largely in terms of the personal names which occur in it, with particular attention being paid to toponymics, and regional or "territorial descriptors". iii) covering the period 1066-1166 and based upon the "principal English administrative sources" for the period, that is, Domesday Book, the Pipe Rolls and the Cartae Baronum.Ī lengthy Introduction (pp.
Domesday People.Domesday Book is the first volume of "an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest England" (p.
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