medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Erik Drigsdahl wrote:
> The old edition of Orbis Latinus does not give a satisfactory
answer.
perhaps not much help for your present problem, Eric, but i thought i'd note
that the best place i've found to decode French place names (esp. rather
obscure ones) is in the series of "Dictionnaires topographiques", which was
begun by the Archiviste of the Eure-et-Loir, Lucien Merlet, with the
publication of the _Dictionnaire topographique du département d'Eure-et-Loir_
(1861).
organised by the modern names, with short mentions of the various ancient
forms, there is, at the end, a "Table des Forms anciennes" which is quite
helpful.
if you have a clue as to what modern Département the place might be, look to
see if the D.T. for that D. exists --best place to find that info is on the
Bibl. nationale's website,
http://www.bnf.fr/
if you're luckey the D.T. for your area will have been published, and if
you've *really* been living a Clean Life of Unceasing Prayer, it will be among
the D.T.s which are to be found as a "Document électronique" on the B.n.'s
"Gallica" site:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
a simple recherche on "Dictionnaire topographique" will turn up over 25 of
them.
best,
c
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