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The Determinants of Manorial Income in Domesday England: Evidence from Essex

1985; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022050700034495

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John McDonald, Graeme Donald Snooks,

Historical Economic and Legal Thought

Despite its wealth of economic data, Domesday Book, complied almost nine hundred years ago, has been surprisingly neglacted by quantitative economic historians. In analyzing one of the central issues in Domesday book—namely the relationship between manorial resurces and income—we here provide a first step in the attempt to redress the balance, by employing recently developed statistical techiniques. The result of the analysis constitutes strong grounds for rejecting the traditional interpretation of the relationship. It also suggests that the English economy of 1086 can be reconstructed more completely than previously thought possible.