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Title : Domesday
Episode Number : n/a
Genre : Documentary
iMDB URL : n/a
Air Date : 08/10/2010 (SD) 08/10/2010 (HD)
DVD Rel Date : n/a
SFM Rel Date : 08/11/2010
Ripped By : SFM
Source : High Definition
Video Format : x264 (in matroska container)
Video Resolution : 1280x720 (25 fps)
Video Bitrate : 2 Pass @ 3345 kb/s AVG
Audio Bitrate : AC3 2.0 @ 192 kb/s AVG
Sample Rate : 48 kHz
Length : 58 MiN 57 SECS
Size : 1.45 GB (1,563,852,843 bytes)
MD5 Sum : 9501a78911216b0967e66364c04efdd7
Packs : 32 x 50MB
EPiSODE SUMMARY
In this programme on the Domesday Book, Dr Stephen
Baxter, medieval historian at King's College, London,
reveals the human and political drama that lies within
the parchment of England's earliest surviving public
record. He also finds out the real reason it was
commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086.
The Domesday Book is the first great national survey of
England, a record of who owned every piece of land and
property in the kingdom. It also records the traumatic
impact of the Norman conquest on Anglo-Saxon England,
the greatest social and political upheaval in the
country's history.
Most historians believe that Domesday is some kind of
tax book for raising revenue, but Baxter has his own
theory. He proves that the Domesday Book could not have
been used to collect taxes and he argues that it is
about something far more important than money. Its real
purpose was to confer revolutionary new powers on the
monarchy in Norman England.
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