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Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland

By Matthew Hammond

Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland Social Sciences

Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland

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Personal names can provide a rich and often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it an ideal case study. This book offers a range of new methodological approaches to anthroponymy, covering Gaelic, Scandinavian and other Germanic names, as well as names drawn from the Bible, the saints, and secular literature. Individual case studies include a comparison of naming in early medieval Scottish and Irish chronicles; an authoritative taxonomy of Gaelic names drawn from twelfth and thirteenth-century charters; a revolutionary new analysis of the emergence of surnames in Ireland, with implications for Scottish history; a complete linguistic discussion of the masculine Germanic names in the 1296 Ragman Roll; a detailed local case study of saints. names in Argyll which bears on place-names as well; and an examination of the adoption of Hebrew Old Testament names in central medieval Scotland.
Dr MATTHEW HAMMOND is a Research Associate at Kings College London.
Contributors: Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, John Reuben Davies, Valeria Di Clemente, Nicholas Evans, Matthew Hammond, Roibeard O Maolalaigh, David Sellar, Tom Turpie.
Product details
Number of Pages:
314
Release Date:
2019-08-16
Publication Date:
2019-07-19
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
178327428X
ISBN13:
9781783274284
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
637 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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