The Anglo-Saxon Heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399

The Anglo-Saxon Heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399 PDF Author: Bo Seltén
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Words, Names, and History

Words, Names, and History PDF Author: Cecily Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914024
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Cecily Clark (1926-1992) is familiar to medievalists as editor of the Peterborough Chronicle; others will know her work in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Middle English studies, in particular her extensive researches in medieval English onomastics. She lectured at the universities of London, Edinburgh and Aberdeen before settling in Cambridge as Research Fellow of, successively, Newnham College and Clare Hall. She was past joint editor of Nomina, a Council member of the English Place-Name Society, and a member of the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences.

Naming the People of England, c.1100-1350

Naming the People of England, c.1100-1350 PDF Author: Dave Postles
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152755144X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Medieval historians have for some time recognized the significance of personal naming processes and patterns for the illumination of social relations such as kinship and spiritual kinship or godparenthood. Increasingly, they are employing the investigation of personal naming (anthroponymy) as part of their elucidation of cultural change-attempting, through changes in patterns of personal naming, to discern cultural transitions and transformations. Recent coordinated research on the European continent has produced major collaborative discussion of the cultural implications of naming in France, the Iberian peninsular, and 'Italy'. The fruits of new research into the 'Germanic' lands have also richly enhanced our understanding of cultural change there. So it is predicated that a new trans-European culture arose in the centuries about and after the year 1000. Omitted from this coordinated understanding of the arrival of a new European cultural tradition (as it came to persist) is the British archipelago. We are, however, far from devoid of scholarly examination of the culture of personal naming in the British Isles. An older generation of linguists produced a basic foundation, although it has not remained free of some criticism. Subsequently, several scholars have independently advanced the interpretive analysis (Clark, Fellows Jensen, Insley, and McClure). At one level, then, this book attempts a synthesis of that previous, highly valuable, but diffuse, research, to make it more widely known, understood and accessible. At another level, nonetheless, it engages with what has become a prevailing narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest: the rapid transformation of English naming (and culture) through the assimilation of a new, dominant, extraneous influence. By reinserting the detail and complexity, it is hoped to demonstrate that far from a single uniform (homologous) culture, there existed residual, even resistant, and 'regional', cultures. The account, it is hoped, presents a cohesive, new narrative of the cultural implications of personal naming in England, whilst also addressing important issues of gender, politics, and social organization.

A Dictionary of English Surnames

A Dictionary of English Surnames PDF Author: P. H. Reaney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134933274
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 3619

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This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.

Old and Middle English Language Studies

Old and Middle English Language Studies PDF Author: Matsuji Tajima
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027237328
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.

The Means Of Naming

The Means Of Naming PDF Author: Stephen Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135368368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland PDF Author: Patrick Hanks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527479
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3137

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Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.

A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English Language

A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English Language PDF Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110855453
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The Margin Speaks

The Margin Speaks PDF Author: Gunilla Florby
Publisher: Lund, Sweden : Lund University Press
ISBN: 9789179664350
Category : Colonies in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The Thorney Liber Vitae

The Thorney Liber Vitae PDF Author: Cecily Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England.

Christian Names in Local and Family History

Christian Names in Local and Family History PDF Author: George Redmonds
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554881323
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Surnames have always provided key links in historical research. This groundbreaking new work shows that first names can also be highly significant for those tracing genealogies or studying communities. Standard works on first names have always concentrated on etymology. George Redmonds goes much further: he believes that every name has a precise origin and history of expansion, which can be regional or even local; up to c. 1700 it may even have centred on one family. This text fully explores the implications of this belief for local and family history, and challenges many published assumptions on the historical frequency of first names.