Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

Nearly a thousand years ago, a famous king created a famous book, later given the title 'Domesday' (pronounced 'doomsday'). It's among the most famous documents in English history, but its origins had not been thoroughly investigated.

A page of the Domesday Book listing land holders in Warwickshire, 1044

High-resolution scans of Domesday Book available for the first time at Open Domesday

Survey of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 to go on rare display

By studying social, political, and economic aspects of the medieval era, students will better understand why their lives are the way they are now.

From the Huth Psalter, made c.1280 possibly at Lincoln, or perhaps at York. In this full-page Last Judgement miniature the Virgin Mary is shown interceding for humanity by displaying her breast to her son, Christ as Judge, in order to remind him of how she had suckled him in his human nature, and hence to prompt him to mercifulness on humankind. This motif apparently originates at around the time of the Huth Psalter, which is one of its earliest examples. It is also found in

Biddestone in Domesday Book

In English history, the years AD 410-1066 are traditionally called the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period. How far is this an appropriate description, and how far can that name also be applied to the inhabitants of early medieval England? More pertinently, how did these people view themselves?

Roger de Montgomery (died 1094), also known as Roger the Great de Montgomery, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and Earl of Arundel, Sussex. His father was Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of Montgomery, and was a relative, probably a grandnephew, of the Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy.