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<p>[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 2760083, member: 74712"]Nice Coins Nerva! In terms of being 'ahead of their time,' your example of Domesday book is just another example of them adapting to an existing culture. It was the Anglo-Saxon system of Shires and Hundreds which allowed for the survey to take place - it was only the Conquest which facilitated the need (William needed to know what loot he now owned). No such survey takes place in Normandy or Sicily. They only thing that comes close are a series of knights' surveys which were conducted in a more 'feudal' manner (I.e., the knight comes in and says what he owes, rather than a governmental survey).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 2760083, member: 74712"]Nice Coins Nerva! In terms of being 'ahead of their time,' your example of Domesday book is just another example of them adapting to an existing culture. It was the Anglo-Saxon system of Shires and Hundreds which allowed for the survey to take place - it was only the Conquest which facilitated the need (William needed to know what loot he now owned). No such survey takes place in Normandy or Sicily. They only thing that comes close are a series of knights' surveys which were conducted in a more 'feudal' manner (I.e., the knight comes in and says what he owes, rather than a governmental survey).[/QUOTE]
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