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Title: Domesday Book: A Complete Translation by Ann Dr. William, G.H., Professor Martin, Editions Alecto ISBN: 0-14-051535-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A landmark work, a little on the sleepy side
Comment: Simply the most boring uninteresting book ever printedInot the fault of this editor by the way, the book was a government document). Although a wonderful window into English history and our heritage of property rights this book is a terribly boring and epically vicious account of nothing, expect a recording of every minor person and land ownership in England. An important piece of western heritage but maybe not bed time reading. Five stars for translation and beauty/presentation.
Rating: 4
Summary: For some of us, this is great bedtime reading . . .
Comment: It takes a particular sort of reader to rejoice at the prospect of an all-new translation of a 900-year-old government-sponsored economic and agricultural census. I'm well acquainted with the Phillimore 35-volume edition published in the 1970s, and I own Finn's guide to it, but this new effort is a lovely piece of work -- and it's portable enough to actually carry around with you. The Alecto translation was itself based on the Victoria History of the Counties of England version, but much improved and updated. This volume also omits the marginalia, which is too bad, but it does interpolate a great many bracketed words to fill the original scribe's frequent elisions. There's also an extremely thorough Index of Places -- but not one of persons, a glaring omission, since so many larger landholders possessed estates throughout a county, or even in numerous counties. Nevertheless, an excellent publication, and at a very reasonable price.
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Title: Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede, D.H. Farmer, Leo Sherley-Price ISBN: 014044565X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe by Patricia Pierce ISBN: 0747234930 Publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus by Michael Psellus, E. R. Sewter, Joan M. Hussey ISBN: 0140441697 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1979 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen by Adam of Bremen, Francis Joseph Tschan, Timothy Reuter ISBN: 0231125755 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Anglo-Saxon England by Frank M. Stenton ISBN: 0192801392 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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