Dear Carole, Dear All,
Thanks, will have a look at Scottish Studies. A quick check through David Kerr Cameron's The English Fair found grants of 1094 for Winchester, 1110 for St. Ives, 1135 for Bury, 1156 for Wells, and 1199 for Barnet, plus Ely temp Hen. I. Like the incorporation of a town, the chartering of a fair usually gave official sanction to arrangements which were already in existence. Of course they're all feriae in the Latin. But what did people call them in English?
Jeremy Harte
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Also of interest may be:
Ronald M. Black, 'Scottish fairs and fair-names', Scottish Studies 33 (1999), 1-75.
Among the issues discussed is the antiquity of fairs.
Best wishes,
Carole
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The best starting point would be The Centre for Metropolitan History's Gazetteer of Fairs and Markets in England and Wales to 1516. The Gazetteer is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. This is the first comprehensive national survey. The project worked systematically through a range of sources to provide as much information as possible about each market and fair, with background information on places where they were held.
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.html
Neil Howlett
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> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 22:16:28 +0100
> From: Jeremy Harte <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fairs
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> Dear All,
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> I was discussing places called Fairfield recently and explaining that while modern field-names with this name might mean 'field where are fair was held', earlier examples were much more likely to be 'beautiful, attractive field' from fæger, as ME feire 'gathering for trade' doesn't come into the language until about 1330. Warming to my theme, I explained that the Anglo-Saxons would have referred to a market and a fair as a ceaping and... and then there was a nasty silence. What is the OE for 'fair' and why doesn't it appear in place-names - or does it?
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> Jeremy Harte
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> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 22:31:07 +0100
> From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Fairs
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> On 09/04/2011 22:16, Jeremy Harte wrote:
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> > I was discussing places called Fairfield recently and explaining that while modern field-names with this name might mean 'field where are fair was held', earlier examples were much more likely to be 'beautiful, attractive field' from fæger, as ME feire 'gathering for trade' doesn't come into the language until about 1330. Warming to my theme, I explained that the Anglo-Saxons would have referred to a market and a fair as a ceaping and... and then there was a nasty silence. What is the OE for 'fair' and why doesn't it appear in place-names - or does it?
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> Is there actually any evidence for early fairs?
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> John Briggs
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