Autoren-Bilder

Ann Williams (1)

Autor von Domesday Book: A Complete Translation

Andere Autoren mit dem Namen Ann Williams findest Du auf der Unterscheidungs-Seite.

14+ Werke 459 Mitglieder 4 Rezensionen

Über den Autor

Ann Williams now retired, was formerly Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the Polytechnic (now University) of North London, is a Senior Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA).

Werke von Ann Williams

Zugehörige Werke

Getagged

Wissenswertes

Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Williams, Ann
Geschlecht
female

Mitglieder

Rezensionen

 
Gekennzeichnet
Mustygusher | Dec 19, 2022 |
Oldest record of Anglo-Saxon England - a superb written account at the time of the Norman Conquest: Following their victory at the Battle of Hastings (1066) a wide-ranging, assiduously collected census under-taken by the new rulers of England. Over several years it produced a geographical-economic-social listing of the peoples of England who were being displaced as the prevailing social order & at all levels reduced in class to peasantry. Domesday is made on the orders of Duke William (latterly King of England) of Normandy to enable his 10,000 strong cohort of 'conquerors' to collect the taxes & configure the Feudal System that will govern England for centuries & in some ways still affects the geo-political landscape of the nation. No other European country possesses such a unique early History.… (mehr)
 
Gekennzeichnet
tommi180744 | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 11, 2017 |
Fascinating in the way a set of encyclopedias or a dictionary can be...there is no story or plot, being just a tax record of assets, but really absorbing.
 
Gekennzeichnet
jcovington | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 1, 2007 |

Dir gefällt vielleicht auch

Nahestehende Autoren

Statistikseite

Werke
14
Auch von
8
Mitglieder
459
Beliebtheit
#53,510
Bewertung
½ 4.3
Rezensionen
4
ISBNs
90
Sprachen
1

Diagramme & Grafiken