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Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700 (Hardcover)
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Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This book contains the results of the first large-scale
quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern
England. Scott Smith-Bannister traces the history of the
fundamentally significant human act of naming one's children during
a period of great economic, social, and religious upheaval. Using
in part the huge pool of names accumulated by the Cambridge Group
for the History of Population and Social Structures, he sets out to
show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be
given these names, why they were named after godparents, parents,
siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming
patterns. The chief historical significance of this research lies
in the discovery of a substantial shift in naming practices in this
period: away from medieval patterns of naming a child after a
godparent and towards naming them after a parent. In establishing
the chronology of how parents came to exercise greater choice in
naming their children and over the nature of naming practices, it
successfully supersedes previous scholarship on this subject.
Resolutely statistical and rich in anecdote, Dr Smith-Bannister's
exploration of this deeply revealing subject will have far-reaching
implications for the history of the English family and culture.
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