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Author : William Henry Duignan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Notes on Staffordshire Place Names written by William Henry Duignan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Horovitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955030901
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Place-names of Staffordshire written by David Horovitz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Poulton-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848681729
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Staffordshire Place Names written by Anthony Poulton-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered where our towns and villages get their names from? Were they a deliberate creation by our ancestors or did they evolve naturally over time? South Staffordshire Street Names examines the origins of the names with which we are otherwise so familiar. Towns, villages, districts, hills, streams, woods, farms, fields, streets and even pubs are examined and explained. Some of the definitions give a glimpse of life in the earlier days of the settlement, and for the author there is nothing more satisfying than finding a name which gives such a snapshot. The definitions are supported by anecdotal evidence, bringing to life the individuals and events which have influenced the places and the way these names have developed. This is not just a dictionary but a history and will prove invaluable not only for those who live and work in the county but also visitors and tourists, historians and former inhabitants, indeed anyone with an interest in Staffordshire.
Author : William Henry Duignan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Notes on Staffordshire Place Names written by William Henry Duignan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Mills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078948
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of British Place-Names written by David Mills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the Dictionary of British Place-Names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place-names from earliest times to the present day. Included place-names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them 'Beer', 'Findlater', 'Broadbottom', and 'Great Snoring'. The A to Z entries are complemented by a detailed introductory essay discussing the chronology and development of English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish place-names, as well as an extensive bibliography, maps of Britain showing old and new boundaries, and a glossary of common elements in place-names. Also new to this edition is an appendix of recommended web links pointing to relevant online resources, thereby expanding the scope of the dictionary and providing the reader with an opportunity to explore the subject further. Both accessible and up to date, this dictionary is an ideal companion for anybody travelling around the British Isles, as well as for researchers and students with an interest in toponomy, local history, cartography, and lexicography.
Author : A. D. Mills
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578479
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of British Place-Names written by A. D. Mills and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 15,000 A-Z entries covering England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, make this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of British place names available. From Abbas Combe to Zennor, it gives the meaning and origin of names of counties, towns, and villages, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day. Invaluable for anyone finding out about a local area, lexicographers and local historians alike will be fascinated by what these place-names reveal. The dictionary features an in-depth introductory essay which discusses the chronology and development of British place-names, different types of formation, and sections focusing on Irish, Welsh, and Scottish place-names. It also includes an extensive bibliography for further research, maps of Britain showing old and new boundaries, and provides a Glossary of common elements in place-names. This critically acclaimed dictionary has been described as 'an indispensable travellling companion' (Landscape History), and 'another volume for every local historian's bookshelf' (Local Historian).
Author : Heinrich Mutschmann
Publisher : Cambridge, University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Place-names of Nottinghamshire written by Heinrich Mutschmann and published by Cambridge, University Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael D. J. Bintley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199680795
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World written by Michael D. J. Bintley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first collection of essays written about the role of trees in early medieval England, bringing together established specialists and new voices to present an interdisciplinary insight into the complex relationship between the early English and their woodlands.
Author : Anthony Poulton-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853063619
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Staffordshire Place-names written by Anthony Poulton-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192527479
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Charles John Beech Masefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Staffordshire written by Charles John Beech Masefield and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Moss
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526722879
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From written by John Moss and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman placenames. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded our shores and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple descriptions of the location; some identified its founder, marked territorial limits, or gave tribal people a sense of their place in the grand scheme of things. Whatever their derivation, placenames are inextricably bound up in our history and they tell us a great deal about the place where we live.
Author : Kay Muhr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019252478X
Total Pages : 2365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland written by Kay Muhr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 2365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland contains more than 3,800 entries covering the majority of family names that are established and current in Ireland, both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland. It establishes reliable and accurate explanations of historical origins (including etymologies) and provides variant spellings for each name as well as its geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes for family names that have more than 100 bearers in the 1911 census of Ireland. Of particular value are the lists of early bearers of family names, extracted from sources ranging from the medieval period to the nineteenth century, providing for the first time, the evidence on which many surname explanations are based, as well as interesting personal names, locations and often occupations of potential family forbears. This unique Dictionary will be of the greatest interest not only to those interested in Irish history, students of the Irish language, genealogists, and geneticists, but also to the general public, both in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora in North America, Australia, and elsewhere.
Author : Carole Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019163042X
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming written by Carole Hough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.
Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521802109
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421890
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Land of the English Kin written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke’s work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand’s contribution to the academic field.
Author : George Henry Armstrong
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada written by George Henry Armstrong and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada" by George Henry Armstrong. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
