Domesday Book and the transformation of English landed society, 1066–86 by Baxter, S, Lewis, C

“…This article presents the first fruits of a long-term project which aims to identify all the landholders named in Domesday Book, and to build up a picture of English landed society before and after the Norman conquest. …”

Domesday Book and the law: Society and legal custom in early medieval England by Brand, P

The shaping of the English landscape: An atlas of archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book by Green, C, Creswell, M

“…The Shaping of the English Landscape is an atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman period, and the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) age. …”

Diets in England: change, continuity and regionality between the Iron Age and Domesday Book (700 B.C -1086 A.D.) by Mallet, S

SUFFOLK IN THE MIDDLE-AGES - STUDIES IN PLACES AND PLACE-NAMES, THE SUTTON HOO SHIP-BURIAL, SAINTS, MUMMIES AND CROSSES, DOMESDAY BOOK, AND CHRONICLES OF BURY-ABBEY - SCARFE,N by Macculloch, D

A Note on Psychological Disorders Named After Cities by Ernest Lawrence Abel

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The tenurial structure of Hampshire before and after the Norman Conquest by Blayney, K

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How and why was Domesday made? by Baxter, S

“…The survey generated a range of different outputs, each intended to serve specific fiscal and political purposes: the hundredal recension was designed to facilitate a reassessment of geld liabilities; the lists of contested matter anticipated a later judicial review; the circuit returns, summaries and Domesday Book were designed to make the administration of the royal demesne and the profits of royal lordship more efficient. …”

The Domesday controversy: A review and a new interpretation by Baxter, S

“…The first is historical: neither Domesday Book itself nor any other near-contemporary document addresses either question directly.2 We have some vital clues, most notably those given to us by the annals for 1085 and 1086 in MS E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, an eye-witness account of the survey written by Bishop Robert of Hereford, the colophon to Little Domesday Book, the prologue to the collection known at Inquisitio Eliensis, and a text in Hemming’s cartulary which records the identity of the Domesday commissioners for Worcestershire and the western circuit.3 These illuminate the Domesday landscape like lightning flashes in a nocturnal storm, giving sudden, partial glimpses of its contours, and afterimages of features we can grope towards when darkness resumes – but they might easily have said more. …”

Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations by Sherman Dorn

“…Rather than testing for ritual or access to mobility, the modern uses of testing are much closer to the state-building project of a tax census, such as the Domesday Book of medieval Britain after the Norman Invasion, the social engineering projects described in James Scott's Seeing like a State (1998), or the “mapping the world” project that David Nye described in America as Second Creation(2004). …”
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Danegeld: the land tax In England, 991-1162 by Cohen, R

“…The thesis extensively examines some of the rich sources of his reign, most especially Domesday Book and its ‘satellite’ texts. William Rufus and Henry I followed in their father’s footsteps, probably levying gelds of 2s per hide in most years, helping finance numerous wars against their brother Duke Robert of Normandy. …”

The estates of the Norman dukes and the Norman kings of England 911-1135 by Dymond, A

“…Chapter 4 turns to England and explains how Domesday Book is used to identify, reconstruct, and estimate the value of the royal estates under the Confessor and the Conqueror. …”