Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names
Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attempted to interpret the material in isolation from it...
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| description | Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attempted to interpret the material in isolation from its onomastic context; this has led to confusion about the significance of such names. Here the analysis of sǣte names is based on a more complete corpus, leading to a radically new interpretation of their distribution, chronology and historical context, with significant implications for our understanding of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon administrative geography and the wider perception of so-called ‘folk’ names. |
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| spelling | nottingham-328452020-05-04T19:15:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32845/ Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names Baker, John Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attempted to interpret the material in isolation from its onomastic context; this has led to confusion about the significance of such names. Here the analysis of sǣte names is based on a more complete corpus, leading to a radically new interpretation of their distribution, chronology and historical context, with significant implications for our understanding of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon administrative geography and the wider perception of so-called ‘folk’ names. Wiley 2017-10-30 Article PeerReviewed Baker, John (2017) Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names. Early Medieval Europe, 25 (4). pp. 417-442. ISSN 1468-0254 Onomastics; Folk-names; Anglo-Saxon England; Early medieval http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12226/abstract doi:10.1111/emed.12226 doi:10.1111/emed.12226 |
| spellingShingle | Onomastics; Folk-names; Anglo-Saxon England; Early medieval Baker, John Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title | Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title_full | Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title_fullStr | Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title_full_unstemmed | Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title_short | Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| title_sort | old english sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names |
| topic | Onomastics; Folk-names; Anglo-Saxon England; Early medieval |
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