For us today, it tells us who owned the land, who farmed there, who used to own it and what it was worth.
For a king in the late eleventh century, it informed him how much tax he could levy on his subjects.
The Domesday Book was one of the first censuses performed in English. It became a storehouse of demographic, family, history, and other information streams.
The Domesday Book may have been biased, and there is a lot of information not included.
The Domesday book was useful to WIlliam the Conqueror because it was a way to know what land and goods were owned, and so he could assess taxes on all of it. The Domesday book is useful today because it is the most accurate portrait of land and economy in that area that we have of that time, so it is useful to historians and economists looking back at how things were done.
Domesday Book.
Domesday Book.
i think it is in the Domesday book?
yes. it helps us find out about how England used to look like
William I, the Conqueror was not mentioned in the Domesday book. Save
The Domesday book was called Domesday because the book was invented in the time of the war and it was doom.
It was collected by commisioners they were sent out all over england
It was collected by commisioners they were sent out all over england
the domesday book was made in england, written by Harold Saxon.