中文名: BBC 末日审判书
英文名: BBC Domesday
版本: [720p]
发行时间: 2010年
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:
末日审判书(1086) [Domesday Book]
欧洲史
征服者威廉一世对英格兰所进行的土地调查的原始记录或摘要。调查是在1086年由地方行政长官组成的小组顶着民众的愤慨情绪进行的，详细记载皇家地产和大佃户情况，可能是中世纪最卓越的政治成就。正如调查中所总结的，它成了研究英格兰的大多数村镇历史的起点。人们把整个调查称为“对英格兰的描述”，但通常都爱使用“《末日审判书》”这一俗称，以示人们在这次调查记录面前无可求告。(大英百科)
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.
