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5694 |
| Title: |
Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086; second edition |
| Persistent identifier: |
10.5255/UKDA-SN-5694-1 |
| Depositor(s): |
Palmer, J., University of Hull. Department of History |
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Principal investigator(s):
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Palmer, J., University of Hull. Department of History
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| Sponsor(s): |
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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| Grant number: |
AN10271/APN18465 |
| Other acknowledgements: |
Researchers who participated in the project were:
Thorn, F.,University of Hull. Department of History
Thorn, C.,University of Hull. Department of History
Hodgson, N.,University of Hull. Department of History |
Administrative history - History
Economic history - History
Local history - History
Population history - History
Population studies - Population, vital statistics and censuses
The text of Domesday Book is notoriously ambiguous, its array of social and economic statistics hitherto inaccessible, and the majority of individuals and many places unidentified. This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a variety of forms: a translation, databases of names, places and statistics, and a detailed scholarly commentary on all matters of interest or obscurity in the text. All forms of the data are cross-referenced, and all can be used with standard applications.
The translation of Great Domesday was transcribed from the Phillimore edition (see data sources for this project) into an electronic format by typists working on a government employment scheme during the early 1980s, then enhanced by the addition of extensive coding under an ESRC-funded research project later in the decade. The comparable transcription and coding of Little Domesday was undertaken by Dr Natasha Hodgson for this project, while the Phillimore notes were scanned, edited, enlarged and enhanced by Dr and Mrs Thorn, also for this project. The databases of names and places were transcribed into electronic format from the original printed Phillimore indexes, then published as national indexes by Phillimore (1992). The statistics database is original to this project, though compiled over a long period.
In the second edition, some errors have been corrected, improvements made to the consistency of the translation and the name-stock, and a substantial file (identifying_domesday_landowners.rtf) identifying landowners named only by their Christian names in Domesday Book has been added.
For further information about the project and Domesday Book please refer to the project web site, where an alternative download possibility for the data is available.
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Main Topics:
Domesday Book (1086) contains the most comprehensive array of social and economic data for the pre-industrial world from anywhere in Europe, possibly from the planet. It is a major source for the disciplines of archaeology, geography, genealogy, law, linguistics, onomastics, palaeography, philology, prosopography, and topography; for several of these disciplines, it is the major source. The history of majority of towns and villages begins with Domesday Book, which includes a vast amount of data on names, places, individuals, taxation, land use, population groups, estate values, legal matters, and a wide variety of economic and agricultural resources: mills, meadow, woodland, pasture, salt-pans, fisheries, etc. Only a minute amount of such data has survived from the first six centuries of English history and little became available for another two centuries, and even then never as a comprehensive national survey.
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Time period:
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01 January 1066 - 01 January 1086 |
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Dates of fieldwork:
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1994, 2007, date file created |
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Country:
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England
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Geography:
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Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
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Spatial units:
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No spatial unit
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Observation units:
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Individuals
Families and households
Geographic Units
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Kind of data:
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Textual
Alpha-numeric
Numeric
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Universe:
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Subnational
Social and economic statistics for the years 1066 - 1086 based on the text of the Domesday Book for England from Yorkshire southwards
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Time dimensions:
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Cross-sectional (one-time) study
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Sampling procedures:
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No sampling (total universe)
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Method of data collection:
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Transcription of existing materials; Compilation or synthesis of existing material
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Weighting:
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No weighting used
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Data sources:
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Morris, J. (1975-92) Domesday Book, Chichester: Phillimore.
Palmer, J., Palmer, M. and Slater, G. (2000) Domesday Explorer [CD-ROM], Stroud: Phillimore.
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Palmer, J.J.N. (1985) 'Domesday Book and the computer' in P.H. Sawyer (ed.) Domesday Book: a reassessment, Baltimore, Md: Edward Arnold, pp. 164-74.
Palmer, J.J.N. (1986) 'Computerising Domesday Book', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, new series, 11, pp. 279-89.
Palmer, J.J.N. (1987) 'The Domesday manor' in J.C. Holt (ed.) Domesday Studies: Papers Read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, Winchester, Boydell Press, pp. 139-54.
Palmer, J.J.N. (1995) 'The Conqueror's Footprints in Domesday Book', in A.C. Ayton and J.L. Price (eds.) The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 23-44.
Dodgson, J. and Palmer, J. (eds.) (1992) Domesday Book: Index of Places, Chichester: Phillimore.
Dodgson, J. and Palmer, J. (eds.) (1992) Domesday Book: Index of Names, Chichester: Phillimore.
Palmer, J.J.N., Palmer, M. and Slater, G. (2000) Domesday Explorer, Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 978-1-86077-163-7
Palmer, J.J.N. (1998) 'War and Domesday waste', in M. Strickland (ed.) Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France: Proceedings of the 1995 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford, pp. 256-75.
Palmer, J.J.N. (2000) 'The wealth of the secular aristocracy in 1086', Anglo-Norman Studies, 22, pp. 279-91.
Palmer, J. J. N. (2001) 'Great Domesday on CD-ROM' in E.M. Hallam and D.R. Bates (eds.) Domesday Book: new directions, pp. 137-48; 211-14.
