Domesday Book and the Law
Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England
- Author: Robin Fleming, Boston College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: December 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521528467
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The Domesday Book contains a great many things, including the most comprehensive, varied, and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the common law. This book argues that it can - and should - be read as a legal text. When the statistical information present in the great survey is stripped away, there is much material still left, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony given by jurors impanelled in 1086, or from the sworn statements of lords and their men. This information, read in context, can provide a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law. The volume provides translations (with Latin legal terminology included parenthetically) for all of Domesday Book's legal references, each numbered and organised by county, fee, and folio.
Read more- The most important and accomplished new analysis of any major aspect of Domesday Book to be published for several years
- Offers a completely original interpretation of all Domesday Book's thousands of legal references in a heroic task of analysis and editing
- A new standard work in the vast Domesday literature and a starting point for further study
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- Date Published: December 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521528467
- length: 572 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 189 x 30 mm
- weight: 1.01kg
- contains: 6 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: disputes and the inquest
Part I. Domesday Book and the Law:
1. The inquest and the mechanics of justice
2. Living in the shadow of the law
3. Disputes and the Edwardian past
4. Disputes and the Norman present. Part II. The Texts: Part III. Indices.
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