Studies on the personal name in later medieval England and Wales
By: edited by Dave Postles and Joel T. Rosenthal.
Contributors: Postles, David.; Rosenthal, Joel Thomas, 1934-
Series: Studies in medieval culture ;; 44
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Names, Personal -- England -- History -- To 1500; Names, Personal -- Wales -- History -- To 1500; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; Wales -- History -- 1063-1536
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Names and naming patterns in medieval England : an introduction / Joel T. Rosenthal; title: English personal names ca. 650-1300 : some prosopographical bearings / Cecily Clark; title: Identity and identification : some recent research into the English medieval "forename" / Dave Postles; title: Women's names in post-conquest England : observations and speculations / Cecily Clark; title: The popularity of late medieval personal names as reflected in English ordination lists, 1350-1540 / Virginia Davis; title: Spiritual kinship and the baptismal name in traditional European society / Michael Bennett; title: Baptism and the naming of children in late medieval England / Philip Niles; title: Social connections between parents and godparents in late medieval Yorkshire / Louis Haas; title: Normans, saints, and politics : forename choice among fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants / Peter Franklin; title: The loss of memory and the memory of loss : naming the landscape in the later medieval village / Sherri Olson; title: The forename and its use as evidence in manor court rolls / Kate Parkin; title: Some aspects of regional variation in early middle English personal nomenclature / John Insley; title: Comparing historic name communities in Wales : some approaches and considerations / Heather Jones; title: Resistant, diffused, or peripheral? : northern personal names to ca. 1250 / Dave Postles; title: The domesday jurors / Chris Lewis; title: Names and ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England / Stephanie Mooers Christelow; title: Personal naming patterns of peasants and burgesses in late medieval England / Dave Postles; title: The baptismal name in thirteenth-century England : processes and patterns / Dave Postles.