medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Christof Rolker,
I guess you read German, perhaps you don't know these articles:
Sante Bortolami, Die Personennamen als Zeugnis für die Geschichte der
Spiritualität im europäischen Mittelalter.
und
Johann Tomaschek, Wandlungen in der Benennung von Ordensangehörigen
österreichischer BEneditinerklöster im Mittelalter. In:
HÄRTEL Reinhard (Hg.), Personenamen und Identität. Namengebung und
Namengebrauch als Anzeiger individueller Bestimmung und gruppenbezogener
Zuordnung. Grazer Grundwissenschaftliche Forschungen Band 3 = Schriftenreihe
der Akademie Friesach Band 2. Graz 1997, 147-182; 183-212.
Best greetings
Martha Keil
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear all,
currently I am working on medieval name-changes, and have been thinking
about religious names in this context, i.e. names taken/imposed after
entering religious life. About the only specialised study I have found is a
splendid article by Sharon Strocchia (see below). I also understand that the
constitutiones say nothing about this practice, and all in all it seems to
be a modern thing. However, name changes (more precisely: the acquisition of
a new name in life) are not that rare in the Middle Ages, and at least
sometimes they occured in the context of entering religious life. A few
examples:
Orderic Vitalis famously acquired his name when he entered St Evroul,
according to his own report because his "English name ... sounded harsh to
the Normans". In the HE also reports how a five year old son fo Ernald d’Echauffour
entering the monastery „was given the name of Benedict by the abbot because
of his sweet nature“. St Theodora of Thessalonike was baptised Agape, and
only called Theodora when she became a nun. (Other name changes of monks one
could think of are St Francis and St Bonaventura, but then again, these
names are not "religious names", are they?)
Does anyone have a guess how common "religious names" were in the Middle
Ages? And can anyone think of medieval comments of this practice?
Best wishes,
Christof Rolker
Sharon T. Strocchia: Naming a nun. Spiritual exemplars and corporate
identity in Florentine convents, 1450–1530, in: Society and individual in
Renaissance Florence, hg. von William J. Connell, Berkeley 2002, 215–40.
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