LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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A book read in Church about the Final Judgement
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A book read by minstrels in court to entertain the King
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A book about English history written by King Alfred the Great
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A book to take a census of all the properties in England
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Detailed explanation-1: -Domesday is Britain’s earliest public record. It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by William I in 1085.
Detailed explanation-2: -For many centuries Domesday was regarded as the authoritative register of ancient landholding and was used mainly for that purpose. It was called Domesday by 1180. In the medieval period Domesday was also known as the Winchester Roll or King’s Roll, and sometimes as the Book of the Treasury.
Detailed explanation-3: -Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it.
Detailed explanation-4: -’ The grand and comprehensive scale on which the Domesday survey took place, and the irreversible nature of the information collected led people to compare it to the Last Judgement, or ‘Doomsday’, described in the Bible, when the deeds of Christians written in the Book of Life were to be placed before God for judgment.