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Article: Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 1999
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Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England, by Robin Fleming. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xix, 548 pp. $95.00.
King William's great inquest of 108e and the enormous Domesday Book that it produced have probably generated more enduring scholarly comment than any other event and document in English history, more even than King John's sealing of Magna Carta on the field of Runnymede. Robin Fleming's lively and engaging examination of Domesday Book makes it clear, nonetheless, that the survey, and the thousands of local inquests that informed it, still have a great deal to tell us about the early years of the Norman ...