A bilingual blog for Geography and History Students

This is the blog for the bilingual students of the Geography and History subject at the IES Duque de Alburquerque (Cuellár). Here you´ll find working material, interesting news, online activities, educational videos, and many more




October 18, 2010

Domesday Game

The Domesday Book is one of the most famous surviving public record. It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the King and his chief tenants, along with all the resources that went with the land in late 11th century England. The survey was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement. There is nothing like it in England until the censuses of the 19th century (in Spain until the Catastro of  Ensenada, at the end of XVIIIth century).

       The nickname ‘Domesday’ may refer to the Biblical Day of Judgement, or ‘doomsday’, when Christ will return to judge the living and the dead. Just as there will be no appeal on that day against his decisions, so Domesday Book had the final word – there was to be no appeal beyond it as evidence of legal title to land. For many centuries Domesday was regarded as the authoritative register regarding rightful possession and was used mainly for that purpose. It was called Domesday by 1180. Before that it was known as the Winchester Roll or King’s Roll, and sometimes as the Book of the Treasury.
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