This book exposes the biggest hoax in English history, maybe in historiography, one on which significant parts of 20th century knowledge have been built. First of all it demonstrates that anyone can do what the leading authorities on Domesday Book deem impossible, simply by replacing their indemonstrable hypothesis with one that is arithmetically demonstrable.
... Econometric Reviews2, 159–218 Painter, S., 1943, Studies in the History of the English Feudal Barony, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press Pearson, C. H., 1867, History of England during the Early and Middle Ages, vol.
103 Stenton , ' York in the eleventh century ' , p . 2 . 104 Stephenson , Borough and Town , p . 153 . 105 Dickens , VCHY , p . 18 . 106 R. Hall , The Viking Dig , p . 119 . 107 R. Hall , personal communication .
A fundamental part of English heritage, the Domesday Book is unique in medieval history, recording an entire country and its inhabitants town by town, with over 12,500 entries.