medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Here's what my neighborhood onomastic (names and naming practices)
specialist has to say:
>Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:46:49 -0800
>To: Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Heather Rose Jones <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: [M-R] naming practices
>
>At 6:58 PM -0800 3/16/02, Chris Laning wrote:
>>Can you think of anything useful? I can only answer for Elizabethan England.
>>
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>>>From: Chara Armon <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Subject: [M-R] naming practices
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>>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>>>Does any list member have suggestions about where to read about naming
>>>practices in the early Christian centuries and the Middle Ages? I am
>>>particularly interested in finding out whether the choice of a child's name
>>>was regarded as the responsibility of either mothers or fathers.
>
>On that specific question, I think you'd have to depend on being
>_really_ lucky and finding somebody's personal commentary on the
>issue. (And then you'd have to worry about whether it was
>prescriptive or descriptive.) I think that most of the discussions
>of naming in the early Christian period that I've seen are working
>purely from name data, and so are concerned with descriptive
>analysis rather than nuances of the whys and wherefores. I know
>there are some articles that cover shifts in naming that co-occurred
>with the early Christian era in Roman culture in the collection
>"L'Onomastique Latine" (1977). But for prescriptive topics, I
>suspect that specifically church-related writings would be more
>fruitful.
>
>Heather
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