
Winchester in the Early Middle Ages
An Edition and Discussion of The Winton Domesday
Martin Biddle(Editor)
Archaeopress Archaeology
Will be published approx. on 3. April 2025
Book
Hardback
708 pages
978-1-80327-016-6 (ISBN)
Description
London and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far the most detailed description of an English or European town of the early Middle Ages. In the period covered Winchester probably achieved the peak of its medieval prosperity. From the reign of Alfred to that of Henry II it was a town of the first rank, initially centre of Wessex, then the principal royal city of the Old English state, and finally `capital' in some sense, but not the largest city, of the Norman Kingdom. This volume provides a full edition, translation, and analyses of the surveys and of the city they depict, drawing on the evidence derived from archaeological excavation and historical research in the city since 1961, on personal- and place-name evidence, and on the recent advances in Anglo-Saxon numismatics.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Archaeopress
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 283 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
2614 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80327-016-6 (9781803270166)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Frank Barlow | Martin Biddle | Olof von Feilitzen
Winchester in the Early Middle Ages
Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday
Book
01/1976
Oxford University Press
€143.61
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Person
Martin Biddle is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was the first Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology in England, at the University of Exeter (1963-67) and has held many other distinguished academic positions worldwide. He is the Founder and Director of the Winchester Excavations Committee (1962-present) and the Winchester Research Unit (1968-present). Professor Biddle is also Chairman of the Fabric Advisory Committee (FAC) for Winchester Cathedral, Archaeological Consultant for St Albans Cathedral, and former Archaeological Consultant for Canterbury Cathedral. In June 2014, he was awarded a CBE for 'services to archaeology'.
Editor
Emeritus Fellow / Honorary Fellow / DirectorHertford College, Oxford / Pembroke College, Cambridge / Winchester Research Unit