Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066/Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England PDE/PASE

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The project will use innovative methods for interpreting Domesday Book to survey the whole of English landed society on the eve of the Norman Conquest in 1066, identifying landowners at all levels of society from the king and earls down to the parish gentry and even some prosperous peasants.

‘Profile of a Doomed Elite’ built on and refined the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England's coverage of the late Anglo-Saxon nobility on the eve of its demise. It opens up the prospect of a major breakthrough in our knowledge of the Norman Conquest, one of the defining moments in English and European history.

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