medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
For the middle ages - before Scott Smith Bannister's book - there will
be D. Postles and J. Rosenthal, eds, _The Personal Name in the Medieval
British Isles_ (forthcoming, hopefully 2002, Medieval Institute
Publications) (this includes the stuff by Philip Niles, Louis Haas, and
Michael Bennett on spiritual kinship and naming)
On the continued use of godparents and their relationship to naming in
early-modern London, there is a paper by Jeremy Boulton on two London
parishes (Soper Lane and Clerkenwell) in D. Postles, ed., _Naming,
Society and Regional Identity_ (Oxford, forthcoming, 2002)
For Europe, but without, as far as I know, treating spiritual kinship,
there are the volumes of Genese Medievale de l'Anthroponymie MOderne,
usually edited by Monique Bourin, although not the Italian volume.
There is also J. Dupaquier, ed., Le Prenom: Mode et Histoire, which is
mainly early modern.
Just a few suggestions.
The idea of Scott SB that fathers selected godparents with the same name
as the father is also suggested by Louis Haas for medieval families in
Yorkshire,
England, although his data relate only to higher social groups (from
INquisitions post mortem), so one therefore has to make a decision
whether spiritual kinship or 'patrilineage' was more important not only
in higher social groups but also lower.
DP
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