tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post6206201862834406281..comments2023-10-09T00:15:08.640+11:00Comments on Stuff, geeky stuff: The Domesday Book as structured datadgmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16429298708780406789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post-37530360659958605552013-07-08T22:53:21.207+10:002013-07-08T22:53:21.207+10:00"With this data it would be quite a simple ta...<i>"With this data it would be quite a simple task to take the 1086 to 1066 rent data and plot it on a map to show how widespread this effect is - for example we would expect there to be less of an impact in areas such as Cheshire and Shropshire where the Harrying was less intense, and consequently a more normal ratio for the rent figures than the extreme case of Fangfoss..."</i><br /><br />The computerisation of this certainly makes it easier, but that work was in fact done in the 1970s, and presented in a book called <i>The Norman Conquest of the North</i> by William Kapelle. He plotted two long swathes of wasted and value-lowered parishes up through the Midlands and down through Yorkshire, and while those aren't the only suffering areas the contiguity of it made a link with the Harrying pretty inarguable there. This may, alas, be one of those cases where digitisation is an expensive way to check what we already knew. But there are a wealth of further possibilities, for sure!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com