Names and naming patterns in England, 1538-1700 /
This work contains the results of an investigation of naming practices in early modern England. It sets out to show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be given these names, why they were named after parents, siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming patterns.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
1997.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Name-sharing practices
- Names and social status
- English personal names
- appendices: A.A test to measure the degree of standardization in the ordering of the most common names
- B. The measurement of the degree of association between two lists of personal names: an adaptation of Spearman's rank-order correlation
- C. The fifty most common names in forty parishes in each decade
- D. The standard forms of alternative spellings of names.