Re-evaluating English personal naming on the eve of the Conquest: Re-evaluating English personal naming

Chetwood, James

Abstract

Between 850 and 1150, the names of the people of England underwent a fundamental transformation. The old Germanic system of dithematic naming was replaced by a system of indivisible names in which a diminishing number of names became shared by an increasing number of people. This is often seen as one of the many consequences of the Norman Conquest, and is assumed to have gone hand in hand with a switch to continental names. Analysing three corpora of names from pre‐Conquest England, this article offers a re‐evaluation of the transformation in medieval English personal naming.

Citation

Chetwood, J. (2018). Re-evaluating English personal naming on the eve of the Conquest: Re-evaluating English personal naming. Early Medieval Europe, 26(4), 518-547. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12298

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 25, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 10, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 11, 2020
• Journal: Early Medieval Europe
• Print ISSN: 0963-9462
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 518-547
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12298
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/2764554
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/emed.12298
• Contract Date: Sep 26, 2019