The Determinants of Manorial Income in Domesday England: Evidence from Essex
运用现代统计方法分析《末日审判书》中埃塞克斯郡的庄园数据,检验资源与收入的关系,推翻了传统解释,并表明1086年英国经济可更完整地重建。
Despite its wealth of economic data, Domesday Book, complied almost nine hundred years ago, has been surprisingly neglacted by quantitative economic historians. In analyzing one of the central issues in Domesday book—namely the relationship between manorial resurces and income—we here provide a first step in the attempt to redress the balance, by employing recently developed statistical techiniques. The result of the analysis constitutes strong grounds for rejecting the traditional interpretation of the relationship. It also suggests that the English economy of 1086 can be reconstructed more completely than previously thought possible.