Locating confraternities in the late medieval and early modern city: 21-46. “Table Guilds and Urban Space: Charitable, Devotional, and Ritual Practices in Late Medieval Tallinn” In: Space, place, and motion.
(Many thanks to Rebecca Le Get, whose many year’s study in Baltic names resulted in this info.) But once you start trying to answer the question of “why” diminutives and hypocoristics were so popular in medieval Estonia, the answers you find are fascinating. While the Dictionary aims to record given names used in Europe between 5, it does not include biographical information about individuals like a prosopographical database. The urban members of the Tallinn Table Guild (Tafelgilde), part of the Great Guild established by the German merchants of the city (Mänd 2017), are called names like Peter, Jakop, Johan or Hans, while those associated with rural manors on the island of Hiiumaa recorded with names like Peep, or Jake. For example, Hans has a higher status than Hannos, Jaagup is finer than Jaak and Peeter is better than Peep.Īnd the names we have listed in the DMNES seems to reflect reflect this hierarchy. In the sixteenth century Estonia (no earlier records are available), a social gradation of certain peasant name forms is visible. In Anti Selart (2016:182)’s article on the adoption of Christian given names in the Baltics, he argues that the form that a name took in medieval Estonia indicated social status:įor instance, when a merchant became a member of the City Council, Hans became her Johann (“Master Johann”). So a lot of the examples of names of Estonians in the Dictionary belonged to the indigenous peasants, as well as wealthier Europeans who had settled in the territory.
These are socage registers that not only record the obligations of peasants to their manors, but also details such as the names of the heads of the peasant households. The short answer is that it is an artefact a lot of our name data coming from sources that focus on Wackenbücher.
#Medieval names and their meanings full
Uckelman, asked why was it in the Estonian name data, that “the nickname forms were more common than full forms”? For Throwback Thursday today, we’re revisiting this topic with some research that partially addresses the question: Here’s hoping 2023 will be not quite as quiet (in a good way!) as 20, and wishing all our readers the very best for the new year.īack in December 2015 our editor-in-chief, Sara L. Most of our attention has been concentrated on creating place-holder entries for all the as-yet-unidentified variant name forms that we have - a task which has resulted in the creation of over a hundred new entries, many of which may not reach “published” status for years if not decades! But occasionally we were able to not only identify the canonical form of a name, but realise we already had an entry for that name - such as happened when we realised that “Febe” was just a French variant of “Phoebe”!īut we did end up with some new material for our new edition - new entries for Frankbert, Fredeward, John-Angel, and Lefrich, and 143 new citations added to already published entries. Well, it’s been quite the quiet year at DMNES central! We’ve had other projects that have taken higher priority over the last year, so work on the dictionary has mostly been bits and bobs in the backend of things.
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