Domesday Book Through Nine Centuries

1986 Thomas Hudson softcover(oversize trade paperback), Elizabeth M Hallam (Capetian France, 987-1328). The history of DB by Elizabeth Hallam, assistant keeper at the PRO, tells general and scholarly audiences how the survey was made for William's administrative needs and used as a working record of English property-holding even into the last century. By then, however, DB had gained as well a long mythic history and played a continuing role in the English consciousness. - Library Journal