Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday
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London and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far the most detailed description of an English or European town of the early Middle Ages. In the period covered Winchester probably achieved the peak of its medieval prosperity. From the reign of Alfred to that of Henry II it was a town of the first rank, initially centre of Wessex, then the principal royal city of the Old English state, and finally capital' in some sense, but not the largest city, of the Norman Kingdom. In this book a team of scholars from Britain and Sweden, centred on the Wincheste Research Unit have undertaken a full edition, translation, and analyses of the surveys and of the city they depict.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198131690
ISBN13:9780198131694
Release Date:January 1977
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:646 Pages
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