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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture From: "Postles, Dr D.A." <[log in to unmask]> > Actually, Christopher, this is a small piece of advice from one of the list administrators. who should be able to speak for themselves, if they have anything foolish to say. >Continuation of the discussion of medieval or early-modern names is absolutely valid and extremely interesting. The digression to idiosyncratic modern ones is really outside the remit of the list only if you insist on defining it that way. as it happens, i don't. *every*thing is Grist for my Mill. and any sort of levity to relieve the tedium of the list is always welcome. i'm not proud and will make lemonade out of any lemons that come my way. >and I would reiterate my advice that we now return to the focus of the list, please. advice noted. as was this very, very interesting --albeit totally non-middlevil/early-modren-- comment by our collegue in Moscow regarding the effect of catastrophic historical events on near-contemporary naming patterns. of course, nothing like that ever happed in the m.a. (i *love* "Elektrostantsiya".) c From: Vadim Prozorov <[log in to unmask]> > Under the Bolsheviks in Russia there appeared a tradition to grant poor children names like Revoljutsiya (Revolution), Vilen (V.I.Len(in)), or Vladlen (Vlad(imir)Len(in)), Elektrostantsiya (Electric Station), even Spartak after the gladiator who revolted against Rome and was considered to be a predecessor of the Russian revolutionists. > vadim prozorov associate professor faculty of history moscow state university ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html