[This blog was first posted on Exeter Cathedral's website on 4 April 2018 and is reproduced here with permission.]
6 April marks the beginning of the new tax year in the UK. 952 years ago, almost to the week, on 25 March 1086, another tax year was ending for ...
The bottom margin of folio 521 verso is an intriguing corner of the Exon manuscript. We are here in the last of the four booklets which record lists of the Terre Occupate (‘Concealed Lands’, perhaps) of Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset, and about three-quarters of the ...
[This blog was first posted on the DigiPal website on 2 February 2015 but is reproduced here as it is particularly relevant to this project.]
One interesting complication of some medieval manuscripts such as Liber Wigornensis and the Exon Domesday book is that we do not know the original ...