Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday

by Frank Barlow, Martin Biddle, Olaf von Feilitzen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198131690
• ISBN13: 9780198131694
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 646 Pages