Norfolk and Suffolk Surnames in the Middle Ages
Author: Richard Alexander McKinley
Publisher: Leopard's Head Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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Marriage in Medieval England
Author: Conor McCarthy
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781843831020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Author: Patrick Hanks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0192527479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Family Names and Family History
Author: David Hey
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-06-22
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1852855509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right. Formed from first names, place names, nicknames and occupations, names allow us to trace the movements of our ancestors from the middle ages to the present day. David Hey shows how, when and where families first got their names, and proves that most families stayed close to their places of origin. Settlement patterns and family groupings can be traced back towards their origin by using national and local records. Family Names and Family History tells anyone interested in tracing their own name how to set about doing so.
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
Author: Carole Hough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 019163042X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.
Medieval Suffolk
Author: Mark Bailey
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1843835290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.
Old and Middle English Language Studies
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9027278709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.
The Surnames Handbook
Author: Debbie Kennett
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0752483498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery surname has its own story to tell, and a surname study is a natural complement to family history research. The study of surnames has been revolutionised in the last decade with the increasing availability of online resources, and it is now easier than ever before to explore the history, evolution, distribution and meaning of your family name. The Surnames Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to researching your surname using genealogical methods in conjunction with the latest advances in DNA testing and surname mapping. The book explores the key resources that are used to study a surname and is packed with links to relevant websites giving you everything you need to research your surname in one compact volume.
The Means Of Naming
Author: Stephen Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1135368368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Great British Family Names and Their History
Author: John Moss
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 152672281X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries. To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ancestors. Their family names fill the pages of history books, indelibly written into events we learn about at school. Family names like Wellington, Nelson, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Constable, De Montfort, and Montgomery reflect the long, checkered history of Britain, and demonstrate the assimilation of the many cultures and languages that have migrated to the British isles over the centuries. This book is a snapshot of several hundred such family names and delves into their beginnings and derivations, making extensive use of old sources, including translations of The Domesday Book and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, as well as tracing many through the centuries to the present day.
