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Urban-rural connections in Domesday Book and late Anglo-Saxon royal administration /

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"One of the most tenacious and long-running controversies regarding the origin and development of the late Anglo-Saxon town has been the nature and function of 'heterogeneous tenure', one of the defining characteristics of the Domesday borough. This refers to the basic division of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haslam, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2012.
Series:BAR British series ; 571.
Subjects:
Cities and towns, Medieval > England.
England > Civilization > 1066-1485.
Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Anglo-Saxons > England.
Boroughs.
Municipal government > England > History.
Land tenure > England > History.
Domesday book.
Table of Contents:
  • Heterogeneous tenure in Anglo-Saxon towns
  • Wiltshire
  • The Burghal territories in Wiltshire
  • Hampshire
  • Warwickshire
  • Gloucestershire
  • Worcestershire
  • Discussion: urban-rural connections and the development of territories
  • Urban-rural connections: functions and origins, a model
  • Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire
  • The Burghal territories of Oxford, Wallingford, Sashes and Buckingham
  • Discussion: the development of the upper Thames area, 9th to 11th centuries
  • Before and after the Burhs of the Burghal Hidage
  • The function of the Burghal system of the Burghal Hidage.