IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 329: English Landed Society in 1066
Monday 11 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Chris Lewis, Department of History, King's College London / Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Bates, School of History, University of East Anglia / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Paper 329-a | Profiling the Doomed Elite of 1066 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Social History |
| Paper 329-b | Patterns of Landownership in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - General, Social History |
| Paper 329-c | Patterns of Personal Naming in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Onomastics, Social History |
| Abstract | The session presents findings from the Leverhulme-funded project Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066. The project is using GIS to tackle the abundant but intractable evidence of Domesday Book in a new way. Paper 1 describes the aims of the project - the identification and profiling of individual landowners in 1066 as a route towards better understanding the social structure of landownership on the eve of the Norman Conquest. Paper 2 presents interim findings about broad regional patterns of landownership that are emerging at the half-way point of the project. Paper 3 discusses the light that our research has thrown on the history of personal naming in the culturally diverse upper reaches of late Anglo-Saxon society. |