The Normans

PBS America

8:40 AM to 9:55 AM

Friday 20 June

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Historian Stephen Baxter explores his own theory that the Domesday Book was commissioned to confer revolutionary powers on the monarchy in the 11th century, and not intended as a means to collect taxes. He examines how the first great national survey, which recorded who owned every piece of land and property in England, was a massive logistical exercise that documented the traumatic impact of the Norman Conquest