Description
Book SynopsisThis volume contains collected papers on medieval England's "names and naming patterns - mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names." According to Rosenthal, there are "three lines of assault upon the culture and practice by way of analysis of names and naming" - "micro-social or family dynamic, village life, and limited name stock that confronts us when we tally the range of names that served the bulk of the population."—from the Introduction
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction Names and Naming Patterns in Medieval England: An Introduction by Joel T. Rosenthal
English Personal Names ca. 650–1300: Some Prosopographical Bearings by Cecily Clark
Identity and Identification: Some Recent Research into the English Medieval "Forename" by Dave Postles
Part II: Scoial Groups Women’s Names in Post-Conquest England: Observations and Speculations by Cecily Clark
The Popularity of Late Medieval Personal Names as Reflected in English Ordination Lists, 1350–1540 by Virginia Davis
Spiritual Kinship and the Baptismal Name in Traditional European Society by Michael Bennett
Baptism and the Naming of Children in Late Medieval England by Philip Niles
Social Connections between Parents and Godparents in Late Medieval Yorkshire by Louis Haas
Normans, Saints, and Politics: Forename Choice among Fourteenth-Century Gloucestershire Peasants by Peter Franklin
Part III: Local Societies Some Aspects of Regional Variation in Early Middle English Personal Nomenclature by John Insley
Comparing Historic Name Communities in Wales: Some Approaches and Considerations by Heather Jones
Resistant, Diffused, or Peripheral? Northern Personal Names to ca. 1250 by Dave Postles
Part IV: Chronologies and Impacts The Domesday Jurors by C. P. Lewis
Names and Ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England by Stephanie Mooers Christelow
Notes on Contributors
General Index
Conspectus of
Nomina ("Forenames")
