Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales

by Dave Postles (Editor), Joel T. Rosenthal (Editor)

Overview

This 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580440257
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	10/01/2006
Series:	Studies in Medieval Culture , #44
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dave Postles is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at State University New York, Stony Brook. He has published widely on women, family, and social history in the late medieval period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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 - Social 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 - LOGICAL 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")