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Over the next nine months, visitors to the British Museum\u2019s much-heralded\u00a0Bayeux Tapestry\u00a0exhibition will encounter a 1,000-year-old, all-action cinematic masterpiece. On it, they will see warlords hunt and fight and swear oaths on holy relics, and dash across land and sea to fight for glory and the ultimate prize of the English throne. A perjured, oath-breaking usurper, Earl Harold, gets his just rewards on the field of battle at Hastings; stout Anglo-Saxon defense is overcome by superior, God-blessed Norman military muscle. Duke William claims his promised inheritance; carrion feed on the corpses of dead warriors; women and children flee the destruction. Castles are built, cities burned; a new king rides off towards his coronation, only for the Tapestry to abruptly end unfinished.<\/p>\n

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There are other stories to be told of those fateful events and their lasting impacts on England and the English.\u00a0A string of rebellions lasted well into the 1070s, but one-by-one the English earls were crushed, imprisoned or executed \u2014 until only one great Englishman, Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester, remained after throwing in his lot with William. Taxes were imposed on the defeated natives to pay off the Conqueror\u2019s armies. But the old English nobility weren\u2019t simply removed from positions of power; even their culture was destroyed. Churches and cathedrals were torn down and rebuilt in the new Norman style, as if to obliterate the visible face of the English past from its skylines and townscapes. Ancient relations between lords and their dependent farmers were severed, never to be rebuilt. The landscape was militarized by the construction of hundreds of motte-and-bailey castles. The \u201cHarrying of the North\u201d in 1069-70, which modern scholars have labeled a genocide, depopulated and \u201cwasted\u201d the country north of York.<\/p>\n

The most significant English document of this \u2014 or any \u2014 period is\u00a0Domesday Book<\/em>, even if, like the Bayeux Tapestry, it\u2019s told by the conquering Normans. It is a survey of all English lands south of the River Tees, listed for each county by the tenant-in-chief, often the king himself, who enjoyed its revenues and was responsible for raising armies from its fighting men and collecting taxes for the king. The idea of the survey was conceived by William in 1085, in the 20th year of his rule over the English, after hearing rumors of a planned invasion from across the North Sea. He sent to Normandy for a great defensive force, to be billeted on English towns and villages, but he had to find the cash and materiel with which to pay and feed them. Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Then, at the midwinter, was the king in Gloucester with his council [\u2026] Then he sent his men over all England into each shire; commissioning them to find out how many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or, what\u00a0dues\u00a0he ought to have by the year from the shire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems extraordinary that, just seven months after William sent his Inquisitors out into the countryside, at Lammastide of 1086 they were able to present to him the results of this immense national data-gathering exercise at Old Sarum, the Iron Age fort near Salisbury where he had built a stronghold inside the old defenses. Returns from the survey were checked by moderators; claims and disputes were allowed and given formal legal recognition. The English bureaucratic state was born, and\u00a0Domesday Book<\/em>\u00a0records the internal workings of this stupendous machinery of the ultra-efficient Norman state.<\/p>\n

The resulting text allows us to encounter the peasant castes \u2014 sokemen, villeins, bordars, cottars and slaves \u2014 who lived on, worked for and rendered goods to their lords in thousands of manors across 34 counties.\u00a0The surveyors counted cows, horses, sheep and pigs, plows and oxen;\u00a0measured\u00a0woodlands, pastures and meadows, calculated cash renders and recorded crushing labor dues.\u00a0Their returns were subsequently compiled in the nearly 900 vellum folios of the Exchequer volumes that later became known as\u00a0Domesday Book<\/em>:\u00a0England\u2019s national asset register.\u00a0As the 12th-century royal treasurer Richard FitzNeal wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe natives call this book Domesday, that is, the day of judgement. This is a metaphor: for just as no judgement of that final severe and terrible trial can be evaded by any subterfuge, so when any controversy arises in the kingdom concerning the matters contained in the book, and recourse is made to the book, its word cannot be denied or set aside without penalty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The judgments of King William\u2019s Domesday<\/em> surveyors echo down the ages.\u00a0The wholesale theft of land by just 200 Norman barons, from some 5,000 Anglo-Saxon thegns, locked England onto a pathway of feudal hierarchy.\u00a0Domesday<\/em> Book<\/em>\u2018s pages record the depredations of a new class of king\u2019s men, tax farmers and sheriffs, raking off profits from fines, sub-letting lands for cash and engineering land grabs for themselves. The rights formerly enjoyed by England\u2019s free peasants were taken from them. From that time on, English law was constructed on the rights of great landowners and on a form of social apartheid.<\/p>\n

Domesday Book\u00a0<\/em>also recorded how England\u2019s fields, meadows, woodland and livestock had been administered and apportioned in the decades before the Conquest. So, it gives us a tangible sense of the sophistication and wealth of late Anglo-Saxon England \u2014 indeed, Domesday\u00a0Book<\/em>\u2019s entries could not have been compiled in just seven months had William\u2019s native predecessors not already held such detailed knowledge of its people and communities, some of it documented in charters accumulated over centuries; much of it oral, passed from one generation to the next by a community\u2019s elders. Anglo-Saxon society was steeped in customary traditions of territorial lordship: land held in return for renders of consumable produce, military and domestic service and loyalty. Its resources were well-mapped by a literate, canny royal administration. Rights of patronage and protection worked up and down the complex social hierarchy of caste and kinship: everyone knew where they belonged, and to whom they owed their services and privileges. Twenty years after Hastings, the great survey of England shows how these rights were either terminated with extreme prejudice in the aftermath of Hastings and subsequent rebellions \u2014 or else redrawn over time, very much to the disadvantage of the natives. England\u2019s free farmers \u2014 the sokemen, liberi homines and radknights (the various regional names for a superior sort of peasant or minor squire) \u2014were largely demoted to the status of villeins; their holdings diminished or reallocated to the new king\u2019s followers, their free status denied. In Domesday Book.<\/em> Harold, England\u2019s last Anglo-Saxon king, was cast as a mere usurping earl \u2014 just another dispossessed lord, his estates now belonging to the new king or his barons.<\/p>\n

Above all, the legacy of the Norman Conquest is told in the landscape, in its open fields and clustered villages, motte and bailey castles, Norman churches and cathedrals: ordered; controlled; taxable; stable; enduring\u2026 till Domesday. The vast majority of the 13,000 or so places named in Domesday Book<\/em>\u00a0still exist \u2014 indeed, a\u00a0Domesday<\/em>\u00a0name-check is an ironic badge of honor, a historical cachet for our provincial towns and villages.\u00a0Domesday<\/em>\u00a0gives the English a sense of deep-time continuity with their past; and the names it records take us further back to the\u00a0beyond\u00a0of Domesday<\/em>, for\u00a0the\u00a0origins of\u00a0each featured place\u00a0lie in the\u00a0pre-Norman\u00a0centuries of the great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Wessex and Mercia, Northumbria, East Anglia and Kent.\u00a0They name the topographic features that mattered \u2014 the shapes of hills, the characters of rivers, the wild beasts of field and woods; they name farms and farmers, the places where rivers might be crossed by ferry or ford or where a night\u2019s rest and fodder might be had.\u00a0Their survival shows that even the imposition of a new power in the land cannot erase an entire culture.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, between them, the Bayeux Tapestry and\u00a0Domesday Book<\/em>\u00a0offered later tyrants a playbook: steal a country\u2019s assets and sell or rent some of them back to the previous owners; render their culture decadent and antiquated; erase it; lower their status and impose a new language on them. Pretend that nothing has changed; legitimize your rule by delegitimizing the\u00a0ancient regime.<\/p>\n

The English landscape was built by communities working the land.\u00a0They constructed their world at walking pace and, in decoding the story of the most profound events in English history, the modern traveler to that half-foreign land \u2014 the England of a thousand years ago \u2014 must tread those same paths, as I have done.\u00a0With\u00a0Domesday Book<\/em>\u00a0in hand, I walked many of the same paths trodden or ridden by William\u2019s surveyors.\u00a0 Often, I\u00a0would\u00a0walk through a wood that had been managed continuously through those centuries, cross a river at a ford that has been in constant use for far longer; navigate by line of sight using the tower or spire of a church that stood before William\u2019s armies crossed the Channel.<\/p>\n

In over one thousand miles of travels on foot, I came to know as much about England today as I did about the England of a millennium ago. Communities are resilient. Forty generations separate us from those days, but the memories of ten centenarians, strung end to end, would take us back there. Some of what I found \u2014 fields and woods for the most part empty of people; bijou cottages with names like The Old Post Office, The Old Forge, the Old School house, in villages where the lanes are empty and there are no shops or schools or forges \u2014 showed how communities have been transformed. But I was deeply struck by the realization of how recently so much of that change has happened. I became engrossed by the detail and richness of the late 19th-century Kelly\u2019s County Directories \u2014 a sort of Victorian Domesday<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 in which villages and small towns come alive with their police constables and station masters, their squires and vicars, farriers and carpenters, smiths, schoolmasters and seamstresses.<\/p>\n

When my grandparents were born, the relations and geographies set out by Domesday Book<\/em> still largely existed: parish council and agricultural laborer; Inn and smithy\u2019s forge; roads, lanes and trackways linking church, manor and marketplace. These were self-sustaining communities steeped in time\u2019s preserving liquor. The Domesday<\/em> counties survived almost intact until 1974; the shire hundreds were still used as administrative and electoral units well into the 19th\u00a0century. Domesday<\/em> boroughs like Old Sarum, long since depopulated, were returning members to parliament until the Great Reform Act of 1832.<\/p>\n

In Northamptonshire, I walked through a village in whose Kelly\u2019s pages my great-grandfather appears as a wheelwright; another where the church in which I was christened holds four generations of my family and whose name, Crick, predates even Anglo-Saxon England; and yet another in whose medieval manor the ancestors of George Washington lived.<\/p>\n

In Worcestershire I visited Droitwich, England\u2019s oldest continuous industrial settlement, where salt has been continuously extracted from brine springs since the Iron Age. Here\u00a0Domesday<\/em>\u00a0records the interests of more than 40 manorial lords who enjoyed financial interests in the salt trade.\u00a0Here, too, it records some of the activities of the dastardly Sheriff Urse d\u2019Abet\u00f4t who owned rights to a virgate (30 acres) of land in Droitwich which rendered 25 sesters or bushels of salt annually but, according to the\u00a0Domesday<\/em>\u00a0entry, he had \u201coppressed the men to such an extent that now they cannot render the salt\u201d.\u00a0 Beneath the grim legacy of industrialization in the West Midlands, documented by writers from William Cobbett to J.B. Priestley, I found in the pages of a late Anglo-Saxon text the artisans \u2014 predecessors of the navvies, potters, colliers and forge-masters of the age of steam \u2014 who had mended plows, baked bread, repaired shoes and fashioned carts ten centuries ago in those same places.<\/p>\n

In Kent,\u00a0Domesday<\/em> tells of ancient landholding rights and territorial institutions \u2014 the lathes \u2014 which show how rights to woodland and grazing for pigs in the High Weald were enjoyed by manors as far away as Minster-in-Thanet, more than forty miles away. In Lincolnshire, I found myself looking at the shape of a distinctive hill whose Old English name, H\u014dh, described the shape of a human heel. I found that the fen-edge town of Bourne had once belonged in part to the Anglo-Saxon lord named Hereward \u2014 the legendary rebel hero. In Norfolk, I was shown a church whose walls were painted with late 11th-century murals, in which Christ appears short-haired and clean-shaven \u2014 a good Norman. In Yorkshire, the devastating consequences of the Harrying of the North, the best documented episode of genocide in English history, were clear from the hundreds of manors listed as \u201cwaste\u201d in 1086. But here also were the place-name remnants of an earlier colonization, in the Scandinavian Thorpes and Danbys whose warrior farmers had made a better fist of integrating with the natives than their Norman counterparts.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s ancient\u00a0institutions \u2014 legal and fiscal \u2014 interweave the overriding interests of Domesday<\/em>\u2019s great landowners against commoners and peasant farmers with threads of Norman piety and logic, the centralizing efficiency of the Exchequer, and a profound knowledge of England\u2019s hierarchies of landscape and community: its parishes and townships, hundreds and shires, boroughs and great estates. Domesday<\/em>\u2019s legacies are, like the English landscape, a complex palimpsest of tensions played out through war and peace, plague and fire, reform and revolution.\u00a0England is the land of the book; and the book of the land. Each generation adds, will add, a new chapter; but they can\u2019t erase all that has been written before.<\/p>\n

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