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General
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Domesday Explorer
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By far the best introduction and topic-by-topic
commentary on all aspects of Domesday studies. Comments on and contributes
to many Domesday debates
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The first part of F. W. Maitland’s classic
study, still the touchstone for much in Domesday studies
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The Domesday Commemoration Committee's conference proceedings, ed. by P. E. Dove,
of 1886
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PRO Virtual Museum, introduction and images
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Popular introduction by Victoria King (2001)
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A French view (lang. French)
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A balanced introduction by Steve Muhlberger
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Article by Geoff Boxell
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A 'democratic' view from Wikipedia. Some insights, but many popular misconceptions
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Bibliography
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Bibliography: Electronic Edition of Domesday Book
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Bibliography of the works cited in the notes
to the Electronic Edition of Domesday Book produced by by John Palmer et
al at Hull
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Domesday Explorer
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Topic by topic recapitulates and updates
David Bates’ Domesday Bibliography of 1986
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Society of Antiquaries
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References in local publications
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Medieval
Genealogy
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Sources and links
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Texts,
translations, and data sets
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Domesday Book
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The complete Alecto facsimile, the best available, and translation, but searchable only by place-name or personal name. A fee of £3.50 is charged for each page view
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Domesday Book Online
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This site aims to provide a complete translation online. At the moment, however, it has a partial list of Domesday place-names and
landholders only
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Domesday Extracts
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Facsimile and translation, from the Alecto
edition, of any Domesday entry. Delivered by email or post for a fee
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Hull Domesday data sets
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Professor John Palmer's Domesday data sets, available for download in Access format or in a tab-separated text files
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GDB 238a
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Facsimile and translation of the account of
Warwick
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Excerpta
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Text (lang. Latin) of an eleventh-century
inquisition of St. Augustine's,
Canterbury,
one of the Kent
‘satellites’
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The Textus Roffensis
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Facsimile of an early 12th-century memorandum book which includes two
pre-Domesday documents
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Medieval Source
Book I
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‘Domesday Book 1086 - Instructions and
Extract’, translation
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Medieval Source
Book II
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The account of Heacham, Norfolk, translation
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Alecto edition
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Information on modern printed facsimile,
translation (now available in one volume),
introductory essays, county essays
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Phillimore
edition
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Information on re-print of the Record
Commission transcript of 1783 with a translation ‘in modern English’ and
entry-by-entry notes
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Middlesex Domesday
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VCH translation of the Middlesex section of GDB
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Review
of Domesday Book and the Law
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Emily Zack Tabuteau’s review of Robin
Fleming’s book that abstracts the legal material from DB
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Domesday
Texts
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David Roffe on the
interrelation of the various Domesday texts
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Little
Domesday Book, Norfolk
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David
Roffe on Norfolk, LDB, and GDB
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Domesday place-name forms
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A list of place-name forms, variously arranged, compiled by Keith Briggs
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Domesday data for Worcestershire compiled by
F. Crompton, registration necessary and fee may be payable
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Domesday Book
on CDROM
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The
Digital Domesday
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The complete Alecto edition with search
engine. For the rationale of the project, see See
Domesday
Book: from 888 parchment folios to four CD-Roms by Henrietta Pearson
and the reviews by
David Roffe and
Stephen Baxter
(fee)
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Domesday Explorer
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GDB sections of Phillimore edition with
sophisticated search and analysis engine. See reviews by
David
Roffe and Stephen
Baxter (fee)
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COEL database
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The complete Domesday personal names with
all related documentation up to 1166. The database is reviewed by
Alastair Dunning. The database manual can be downloaded from the COEL website
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Domesday Databases
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An essay on the design of Domesday databases
by David Roffe
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MacDomesday Book
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A review article
of DB databases by Robin Fleming and Andrew Lowerre, from Past and Present,
184, August 2004 (fee)
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Dating and
purpose
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The
Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary
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W. E. Kapelle’s review of current ideas up
to 1992
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Domesday Book
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Sally Harvey’s review of current ideas in
1986
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Domesday: the
Inquest and the Book
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Essay by David Roffe arguing that the
production of Domesday Book was a different enterprise from the Domesday
inquest
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Reviews of Domesday: the
Inquest and the Book
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By Stephen
Baxter, John
Palmer, Emily
Albu, and The
Contemporary Review, with a reply by David Roffe.
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Review
of Domesday Book, eds Hallam and Bates
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Essays on new perspectives in Domesday studies reviewed by C.
Lewis
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Prosopography
and genealogy
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Corrections to K S B
Keats-Rohan's 'Domesday' Series
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Additions
to and corrections of Domesday People and Domesday Descendents
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The Conqueror and His
Companions
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By J. R. Planché (London, 1874). Out of date. Beware!
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Hereward 'the
Wake' and the Barony of Bourne: a Reassessment of a Fenland Legend
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Article by David Roffe
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The name Sewell, article by Eric Sewell.
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Society and
Economy
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Lists of principal pre-Conquest holders of
land by county.
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J. McDonald and G. Snooks’ analysis of 1986,
complete text of book (subscription only).
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Essay by J. McDonald
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Essay by J. McDonald, from The Accountng Historians Journal, June 2002.
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Essay by J. McDonald, from Accounting History, Vol. 10, No. 2, 125-145
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Review of J. McDonald,
Production Efficiency in Domesday England
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By Maristella Botticini.
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The Suitability of Domesday Book for
Cliometric Analysis
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Article by McDonald and Snooks, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 40 (1987), 252-61
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Essay by David Roffe with analysis of
Domesday tenures and lordship.
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Great
Britain Historical GIS Project
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Map of Domesday villeins in Cambridgeshire.
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Mapping Domesday Book Using GIS
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Article by Andrew Lowerre on the application of GIS technology, illustrated with
sample maps of Northants, Cambs, Hunts, and Beds
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Compiled by Samantha Letters; much on
Domesday markets
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Essay on land, ploughs, and taxation by David
Roffe
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Regional studies
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Danelaw assemblies
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Essay by Sam Turner.
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The Normans in
South Wales
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Monograph by Lynn H. Nelson, 1966.
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Monograph by David Roffe
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Local studies
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Identification of Burton Abbey’s lands by
Richard Dunmore
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Monograph by Janet Gyford
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Identification of a lost DB place
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Tenure in vicinity of central place
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Interlocking patterns of soke
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Tenure and minster churches
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Stamford:
the development of an Anglo-Scandinavian borough (Lincs)
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Article by C. M. Mahany and David Roffe; Domesday boroughs in
the Northern Danelaw, burghal tenure
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Comital estates and boroughs
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Domesday
Middlesex
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Introduction to the Domesday Survey, VCH Middlesex
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The Domesday Book castle LVVRE (Salops)
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Article by Keith Briggs
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Domesday
Somerset (Soms)
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Sections on towns, population, mills, and minor industries.
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The Surrey Domesday
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An on-going analysis of the Surrey Domesday by Patrick Molineux
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The Domesday
Survey (Sussex)
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Essay by Nick Austin
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