Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
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Chapters (352)
- DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
- ADDENDUM.
- ESSAY I. DOMESDAY BOOK.
- § 1. Plan of the Survey.
- § 2. The Serfs.
- § 3. The Villeins.
- § 4. The Sokemen.
- § 5. Sake and soke.
- § 6. The Manor.
- § 7. Manor and Vill.
- § 8. The Feudal Superstructure.
- § 9. The Boroughs.
- ESSAY II. ENGLAND BEFORE THE CONQUEST.
- § 1. Book-land and the Land-book.
- § 2. Book-land and Folk-land.
- § 3. Sake and Soke.
- NOTE. The Ángild Clause.
- § 4. Book-land and Loan-land.
- § 5. The Growth of Seignorial Power.
- § 6. The Village Community.
- ESSAY III. THE HIDE.
- § 1. Measures and Fields.
- § 2. Domesday Statistics.
- § 3. Beyond Domesday.
- INDEX.
- NOTES
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