Description: Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh light on its mysteries.
Brief description: Dr K S B Keats-Rohan is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford.
Review Quotes: Despite the unabated interest in, and studies of, the Domesday inquest and the documents that resulted from it, there remains a lack of scholarly agreement on the purpose for either the inquest or the texts. The contributors to Domesday Now have come to the consensus that the way forward is through a new critical edition of Domesday. Their essays in this volume present new categories of evidence that lay the scholarly foundation for that new edition. . . . Indeed, the variety of essays in Domesday Now demonstrates the potential for work with the aid of such an edition, and points to riches yet to be discovered.-- "COMITATUS"