![]() Associations easily made between related information in a computer database cannot be achieved in a printed book without an inordinate amount of cross-indexing. The computer database has many advantages over the printed book the transfer of information from the former to the latter, as occurs here, results in a somewhat uncomfortable marriage between the long- standing traditions of manually organizing and synthesizing data, and computerized alternatives. As anyone who uses computers for this purpose knows, improvements in hardware and software are constantly being made and these in turn are changing the way in which we approach, and are able to access, large amounts of information. Keats-Rohan has been a pioneer in the application of computer technology to historical research, and particularly in the use of relational databases to organize and manipulate lists and indexes of the type represented by the present volume. Even when one gets used to it, this construction is somewhat cumbersome, especially if the place-name under which the bibliographical reference appears does not feature in the title of the work. Elvey's Luffield Priory Charters will be found under "Luffield", and the Cartulaire de Saint-Michel- de-l'Abbayette, edited by B de Broussillom (sic), under "Le Mans/Maine" (p. The volume concludes with a bibliography of short titles, and of abbreviations, arranged topographically. Each entry contains what the editor has been able to determine about an individual's feudal and personal relationships, followed by a list of references to the sources from which the relevant information came. 199) and " Filius Almari" among the unidentified persons without forenames (p. It is unclear to this reviewer, however, why "Filius Willelmi De Taon" should appear in the list of individuals alphabetized by first name (p. 499, unfortunately without a physical division, by unnamed (although not unidentified) abbots ("Abbas De"), by abbeys ("Abbatia De") and churches ("Ecclesia"), and alphabetically by unidentified persons without forenames and miscellaneous groups. After "Wluuius Piscator", the list is followed on p. ![]() Entries are arranged in alphabetical order by an individual's first name names with attributes (occupational, topographic or other) precede those without. 121-541) is devoted to the DB prosopography. Unlike the Lindsey Survey, a full Latin transcription has never before been published. The second appendix consists of the Northamptonshire Survey from BL Cotton MS Vespasian E 22, thought to have been drawn up shortly before 1120 in association with the assessment of Danegeld. Longley in 1924, it is included here with an independent index of persons and places because of its "prosopographical importance". Although previously published from BL Cotton Claudius C v by Thomas Hearne in the Black Book of the Exchequer (1728), in translation by Chester Waters (1883), in facsimile by James Harris Greenstreet (1884), and again in translation by C.W. The first is a Latin transcription of the Lindsey Survey (1115-18), minus the "very late" additions. Two appendices complete the introductory material. (75) In the continuing debate over what might have been, had Duke William of Normandy remained on his side of the Channel, and what was, Keats-Rohan finds a clearly positive consequence of the invasion: "certainly the conquest of the most sophisticated state of its time by the most ruthlessly efficient entrepreneurs of the time ensured the future of England as the home of innovation in the science of government." Concluding remarks submit that DB prosopography is both "a history of the conquest and settlement of England" and "the history in microcosm of Normandy and the Normans". In addition to the overall majority who derive from Normandy, attention is paid to the Breton contribution to the Conquest, and to the Continental origins of DB landholders in general. These represent approximately forty percent of the 2,172 landholders occurring in DB which the editor has been able to identify. 1-117) considers Domesday Book (DB) largely in terms of the personal names which occur in it, with particular attention being paid to toponymics, and regional or "territorial descriptors". ![]() iii) covering the period 1066-1166 and based upon the "principal English administrative sources" for the period, that is, Domesday Book, the Pipe Rolls and the Cartae Baronum.Ī lengthy Introduction (pp. Domesday People.Domesday Book is the first volume of "an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest England" (p.
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