Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland (Hardcover)

A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow. Personal names can provide a rich and often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it an ideal case study. This book offers a range of new methodological approaches to anthroponymy, covering Gaelic, Scandinavian and other Germanic names, as well as names drawn from the Bible, the saints, and secular literature. Individual case studies include a comparison of naming in early medieval Scottish and Irish chronicles; an authoritative taxonomy of Gaelic names drawn from twelfth and thirteenth-century charters; a revolutionary new analysis of the emergence of surnames in Ireland, with implications for Scottish history; a complete linguistic discussion of the masculine Germanic names in the 1296 Ragman Roll; a detailed local case study of saints. names in Argyll which bears on place-names as well; and an examination of the adoption of Hebrew Old Testament names in central medieval Scotland. Dr MATTHEW HAMMOND is a Research Associate at Kings College London. Contributors: Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, John Reuben Davies, Valeria DiClemente, Nicholas Evans, Matthew Hammond, Roibeard O Maolalaigh, David Sellar, Tom Turpie.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Celtic History
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Matthew H. Hammond
Contributors:	David Sellar (Contributor) • John Reuben Davies • Matthew H. Hammond • Nicholas Evans • Rachel Butter • Roibeard O'Maolalaigh • Thomas O Clancy • Tom Turpie • Valeria Di Clemente
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-1-78327-428-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	1-78327-428-X
Barcode:	9781783274284

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