Names, Time and Place : Essays in Memory of Richard McKinley

Hook, Della (EDT)/ Postles, David (EDT)/ Hooke, Della (EDT)

Leopard's Head Press Ltd（2003/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780904920468
• DDC分類 929.4

Full Description

Richard McKinley was a distinguished historian of Leicestershire and a pioneering specialist in the history of English surnames. This festschrift contains twelve essays written by his former colleagues and friends. They focus on the subjects the interested McKinley throughout his career, particularly surname studies on late medieval and post-medieval England.

Contents

Introduction (David Postles); Richard McKinleyFox); Richard McKinley: A Bibliography (Margery Tranter). Part 1. Essays by Colleagues Associated with Name Studies. Alfordruncen, Benebrec, Cattesnese: Some early-twelfth-century Suffolk by-names (Cecily Clark); Addenda and Corrigenda to Tengvik (John Dodgson); In quest of lost Danes: The Scandinavian element in English surnames (Gillian Fellows-Jensen); Habitation Surnames: Some notes on A Dictionary of British Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges (Margaret Gelling); Names and Settlement in the Warwickshire Arden (Della Hooke); The Place-name as Surname in Wales (Prys Morgan); Names in -kin in Medieval Wales (Oliver Padel). Part 2. Essays by Colleagues in English Local History. Farmworkers' Accommodation in later Medieval England: Three Case Studies from Devon (Harold Fox); Stable Families in Tudor and Stuart England (David Hey); The Distribution and Stability of Surnames in south-east Surrey - 1664-1851 (Evelyn Lord); Surnames and Stability: a detailed case study (Suella and David Postles); Name, Race, Terrain: The Making of a Leicestershire Boundary (Margery Tranter).