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

The battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, in which William, Duke of Normandy (later known as William the Conqueror) defeated the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II, is one of the most famous dates in history. But while it is generally known that the clash was fought some six miles to the north west of the modern town of Hastings, historian Trevor Rowley goes further by suggesting that William never went to Hastings at all - but instead prepared for battle at Pevensey after landing his forces there…

I'm watching Foyle's War, a TV series from the UK, and in the episode I just saw, there was a farmer who said to a policeman that a plot of land had been in his family since the "doomsday book was written". What the heck is a doomsday book? [ed note: it's not called the "doomsday book", but rather the "domesday book", but I'll get into that in a minute]

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

Le "Domesday Book" (1086)

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