IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 113: Personal Names and Social Identities in the Early Middle Ages
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Research Group 'Nomen et Gens' |
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Organiser: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 113-a | Local Identities: Names and Documents in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Social History |
Paper 113-b | Linguistic Assimilation and Hybridisation of Germanic Personal Names in 9th-Century Île-de France (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Social History |
Paper 113-c | The Motives for Name Giving in 9th-Century Île-de-France: A Comparison of Different Social Groups (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Social History |
Abstract | During the early Middle Ages personal names were important indicators of social status, and the act of naming reflected identities of the respective social group. Thus by analysing personal names, processes such as linguistic assimilation and hybridisation as well as social strategies of distinction and identificaton can be observed. In the session members of the interdisciplinary research group 'Nomen et Gens' discuss the complex interrelations between names, naming, status and identities: Philologists and historians focus on case studies from early medieval lombard Italy and 9th century Ile-de-France. Their papers are based on charter material and the polyptychon of the monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. |