Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Fleming, Robin
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	12/18/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the Common Law. This book argues that it can--and should--be read as a legal text. Stripped of its statistical information, Domesday Book contains a remarkable amount of legal material, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony, or from the sworn statements. This information, read in context, provides a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law.