DANEGELD

dānˈgĕldˌ, medieval land tax originally raised to buy off raiding Danes and later used for military expenditures. In England the tribute was first levied in 868, then in 871 by Alfred, and occasionally thereafter. Under Æthelred (965?–1016) it became a regular tax, and was collected by later rulers until the 12th cent., when it was converted into tallage.

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books on: Danegeld  - 249 results

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The Foundations of England: Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55-A.D. 1154) - Vol. 2
Book by James H. Ramsay; Swan Sonnenschein, 1898
Subjects: Great Britain--History--To 1485
...The Danegeld; the Currency 149...1096 A double Danegeld; William takes possession 205...326 Danegeld and miscellaneous sources of revenue...
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Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England
Book by Graeme J. White; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Henry Ii, 1154-1189, Great Britain--History--Stephen, 1135-1154, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1154-1189
...a capital A. Thus, in discussions of danegeld waste in the 1156 pipe roll, where Madox...Staffs. Colls., I, 22; J. H. Round, Danegeld and the finance of Domesday, in Domesday...partly from taxation, such as scutage, danegeld and various aids and dona (although...
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The Foundations of England or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55-A.D. 1154)
Book by James H. Ramsay; Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898
Subjects: Great Britain--History--To 1485
...Battle of Maldon; First Payment of Danegeld 339 992? Fresh hordes; Another Treaty; More Danegeld -- Probable...saved -- Danegeld; Olaf is baptized and leaves England...
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Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series
Book by William Stubbs, Arthur Hassall; Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902
Subjects: Diceto, Ralph de--d. 1202?, Dunstan--Saint--909-988, Great Britain--History--Plantagenets, 1154-1399
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Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the Eve of the Norman Conquest
Book by C. Warren Hollister; Clarendon Press, 1962
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons, Great Britain--History, Military
...444-5. 7 e.g. J. H. Round, "Danegeld and the Finance of Domesday", in Domesday...nowhere else anything quite like the danegeld , and by far the greater proportion...military purposes: 1 the land tax or danegeld sometimes called the heregeld ; 2...
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journal articles on: Danegeld  - 7 results

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Violence and Non-Violence in Anglo-Saxon England: AElfric's "Passion of St. Edmund"
Journal article by James W. Earl; Philological Quarterly, 1999
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Anglo-Saxons--History, Passion of Saint Edmund (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Vikings--History, Violence--History
...tribute to the Vikings in 991. History remembers him as Sigeric Danegeld. Let us consider the possibility, then, that the kings ineffective...Tryggvasons raids in 991, the precedent-setting payment of Danegeld, represented a logical extension of the doctrine of Christus...
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Genetic Science versus Authoritarianism on the Left: the Disruption of Yet Another Academic Meeting by Radical Protestors
Journal article by Chris Brand; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 40, 1999
Subjects: Demonstrations & protests, Genetic engineering, Reproductive technologies
...arrival of official Third Way multiculturalism. This bizarre philosophy feigns tolerance of divergence and provides payment of Danegeld to people unwilling or unable to speak English; but it is not even able to tolerate classical forms of reasoned argument, presentation...
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Financial Worship: The Quranic Injunction to Almsgiving
Journal article by Jonathan Benthall; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Charity--Research, Islam--Charities, Koran--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...pers. comm. 13 As in the Ibadate imamate of Oman in the late nineteenth century, where zakat became more like a type of Danegeld than a form of religious alms (Wilkinson 1987: 180). 14 Abd-Allah suggests that the administrators of zakat have a right...
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The Democratic Threat to Capitalism
Journal article by Jerry Z. Muller; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007
Subjects: Capitalism--Evaluation, Democracy--Economic aspects, Democracy--United States
...and perpetual growth, on an expected and continuous improvement.... Its favored mode of social control is universal Danegeld, buying off social aggression with material enhancement; its greatest weakness is...
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Morality, Social Policy and Berlin's Two Concepts
Journal article by Robert Grant; Social Research, Vol. 66, 1999
Subjects: Social Sciences
...self-responsibility. Where the left-liberal spends fortunes on welfare (which, from the point of view of public order, is a kind of Danegeld), the egoistic libertarian would probably have to find equally vast sums for ever more prisons and private protection agencies...
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magazine articles on: Danegeld  - 17 results

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Goodbye, Inland Revenue
Magazine article by Charles Leadbeater; New Statesman, Vol. 127, July 3, 1998
Subjects: Taxation--Forecasts, United Kingdom--Tax policy
...hide. The system of Anglo-Saxon England, designed to pay "Danegeld" to the invading Vikings, was highly efficient because it...authorities in the electronic era. The Anglo-Saxons paid Danegeld to the Vikings; we may well pay it to Microsoft.
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Stress Testing the Global Economy
Magazine article by Eric Jones; The National Interest, Spring 2002
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Globalization and History (Book)--Reviews, Stress Testing the System: Simulating the Global Consequences of the Next Financial Crisis (Book)--Reviews, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (Book)--Reviews
...gives a purpose to life, protest is fun, protest is sexy, and protest can be made to pay. Some companies appear to be paying Danegeld to bodies openly devoted to undermining international business. The Unilever Corporation is reported to have been funneling...
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Piracy and Civilization: A Lesson for Our Time
Magazine article by John O'Sullivan; National Review, Vol. 61, May 4, 2009
Subjects: Military maneuvers--Evaluation, Military operations--Evaluation, Military policy--Evaluation, Piracy (Transportation crime)--International aspects, Piracy (Transportation crime)--Management
...lawyers, and ship owners to suggest that nothing can really be done about piracy except to avoid it if possible and to pay the Danegeld if not--or, just possibly, to bore the pirates to death with endless seminars on the new international law. And piracy is not...
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Here's the Real Story: Christian Gross Is Behind Murdoch's Man U Bid
Magazine article by Hunter Davies; New Statesman, Vol. 127, September 11, 1998
Subjects: Football teams--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Manchester United--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.
...After all, lies are funny, if you are merely a humble spectator at the football feasts, content to turn up and meekly pay your Danegeld to Sky, buy the shirts, mortgage your house for a season ticket. That one about Glenn Hoddle being behind the Man Utd bid...
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Website of the Month: Tax World
Magazine article by Susan B. Anders; The CPA Journal, Vol. 79, March 2009
Subjects: Online information services, TaxWorld, Taxation, United States, Web site reviews
...Empire, Great Britain, and America. From the historical summary page, users can also discover the meanings of "carucate," "danegeld," "scutage," and "tallage," as well as visit the Tax History Project via the provided external link General Tax Resources...
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newspaper articles on: Danegeld  - 20 results

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Probably the Heaviest Tax in the World
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 24, 2008
...for this kind of thing. They called it "Danegeld", and from that point onwards the English...mints (mostly silver pennies) went in Danegeld. Not surprisingly, then, if youre interested...picked up on this fact in a poem called Danegeld: But weve proved it again and again...
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My Heart Aches for Kenneth Bigley and His Family. but It Will Be the Road to Hell If We Pay to Win His Freedom
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 30, 2004
...his astonishingly perceptive poem Danegeld, about the money paid by Anglo-Saxon...invasions: And that is called paying the Danegeld, But weve proved it again and again...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane...
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Will Alex Ever Be Bought off with Handouts?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 20, 2008
Subjects: Brown, Gordon (British politician)
...concession after another. He called it paying the Danegeld. Originally Danegeld was money paid by Ethelred the Unready to persuade...again andagain, that if once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of theDane. Quite so. Will Mr...
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Brown 'Feeding Grievance against English'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 10, 2007
...England and the rest of the UK. The Barnett formula, which distributes money to the nations of the UK, was the equivalent of the Danegeld, protec- tion money paid to the Vikings by the English, he said. The Union is in danger. While break-up is not yet inevitable...
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Jail - a Good Career Move for Foreigner; DAILY POST YOUR VOICE IN WALES
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 10, 2006
...have contributed to our overcrowded jails. When the Anglo-Saxons paid Viking neer-do-wells to go home in 856 it was called Danegeld. If lessons are to be learnt from history, it didnt work: the rascals disappeared over the horizon only to dump their loot...
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encyclopedia articles on: Danegeld  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Danegeld
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DANEGELD dan geld , medieval land tax originally raised to buy off raiding Danes and later used for military expenditures. In England...
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Sweyn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Danes defeated and killed King Olaf I of Norway and divided his kingdom. Sweyn had previously invaded England and exacted Danegeld from King AEthelred . He invaded England again in 1003 4 and in 1013, when the English finally submitted and accepted him...
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Æthelred , King of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...hampered by the frequent treachery of his commanders. In 991 he began paying tribute to the Danes, which he raised by the Danegeld , but his tributary status did not prevent the Danes from returning. In 997 they came not only to raid but to remain and plunder...
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Tallage
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...by the French Revolution. The English tax known as tallage, introduced by the Norman kings as a partial substitute for the Danegeld , was levied by the kings and lords on their demesne lands (see demesne ); under Richard I and John it became a common source...
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Alfred
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Faced by an enemy too powerful to defeat decisively, Alfred cleared the Danes from Wessex by a heavy payment of tribute (see Danegeld ) in 871. Alfred used the five-year respite that followed to begin building up a fleet. In 876 and 877 the Danes returned to...


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