Joseph Lynch has a book on godparents, but I am on the road and away from
our catalog.
Tom Izbicki
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Daniel T Kline wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:06:32 -0900
> From: Daniel T Kline <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Taking a Christian name
>
> Ron,
>
> Barbara Hanawalt's _Growing Up in Medieval London: The
> Experience of Childhood in History_ (Oxford, 1993) has a nice
> discussion of baptism and naming and its importance for kinship
> networks and the child's future social affiliations.
>
> Dan Kline
> U of Alaska Anchorage
>
>
> Ron Ganze wrote:
> >
> > Hello--
> >
> > I'm having a bit of difficulty phrasing what I want, so I hope this makes
> > sense.
> >
> > I'm looking for works that examine the importance of taking a Christian
> > name, either upon conversion or baptism and the significance of this act to
> > one's own sense of Christian identity, and the sense of the community as
> > well. I'd like something that traces it back to Saul/Paul, and maybe even
> > looks hypothetically at the addition of "Christ" to Jesus' name.
> >
> > The focus of the work(s) would have to, of course, be medieval, as I am
> > looking at instances of conversion in medieval literature.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron Ganze
> > University of Oregon
>
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