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What Was the Domesday Book & How Was It Produced?

The Domesday Book ranks among the most important historical texts in English history. But what was it, and how did it come into being?

by Dan Bulman

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Domesday Book at PG:
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The Domesday Book from Andrews, William: “Historic Byways and Highways of Old England” (1900) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book#/media/File:Domesday-book-1804x972.jpg The image shows two large, elaborately bound volumes stacked atop each other, their thick covers adorned with ornate patterns and metalwork. One book lies closed while the other is partly open, emphasizing the substantial, weighty quality of these historical records. The craftsmanship of the bindings, featuring corner bosses and embossed designs, suggests the books’ immense value and official status. Beneath them rest richly decorated document folders and an unrolled parchment scroll, reinforcing the archival and administrative theme of the image.

What Was the Domesday Book & How Was It Produced?

Dan Bulman (TheCollector)
#books #Literature

#OTD in 1726.

The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".

gutenberg.org/ebooks/17157

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First edition of Gulliver's Travels. Author Jonathan Swift Original title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Project Gutenberg
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So this is done? I'm tired!!

if you're in the UK/EU, print copies are going to be available...

Themes:
#Caribbean #puertorico #postcolonial #performanceart #photography #literature #afroindigenous

dm me if interested

the front cover of a zine. sycorax, the portal to afro-indigenous femme subjectivity artist marcia x the bottom portion is a a photographic image of mine
#Photography #Literature #puertorico #caribbean #AfroIndigenous #performanceart #postcolonial

Traditional #African tales of monsters, genies & malevolent spirits have been reworked in a new #Netflix series.
....retelling these folktales is an important part of cultural preservation & evolution, as .. oral traditions face extinction. Many #stories disappeared during the colonial period, when written western #literature was privileged & bans on vernacular languages, containing communities’ #cultures & #history were enforced"
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Blackfedi

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Photo of filmmakers standing in front of large film placard for the African Folktales Reimagined series

African film-makers reimagine folktales as dark fantasy dramas for Netflix

The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end drought
Caroline Kimeu (The Guardian)
#history #netflix #Literature #BlackMastodon #blacktwitter #BlackFedi #cultures #stories #African

My short story, ‘Dublin, We Were’, published in A Public Space went online today. #fiction #literature #dublin #ireland #irishart apublicspace.org/magazine/deta…

Dublin, We Were

A Public Space
#Literature #ireland #fiction #dublin #irishart

is there an inventory online somewhere? I’d love to find a synopsis on each.

I’m also curious about who was writing about what and when, and who kept these books for so long. This is a fascinating glimpse into the past. If only books could talk!

(Coming soon to) #Amazon #Books #Literature

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