MICEL FOLCLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY VII
Haven’t posted a segment in a while because of physical ailments. But here…
Working on a new version of the bibliography and sharing it here. These books are recommended—or warned against—by members of the group and other medievalists. Please write with any additions you suggest!
MUSIC
Robertson, Alec and Denis Stevens (ed.). The Penguin History of Music, Vol. I
Ancient forms to polyphony. Focuses on the development of music, mostly ecclesiastical, from plainsong to polyphony, ending around 1450. Keep a music dictionary nearby when you read this.
NAMES
Barber, Henry. British Family Names; Their Origin and Meaning, with Lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-saxon and Norman Names
Family Names—and of course the persnal names they came from—accumulated atthe turn of th last century. Many Norse, Englisc, Norman, Irish and Frisian.
Dunkling, Leslie & William Gosling. Everyman’s Dictionary of First Names
Not a primary source but still a good jumping-off point.
Geirr Bassi Haraldsson. The Old Norse Name
A booklet designed for Marklanders (Norse reenactors) with names, sources and construction techniques from Landnabok and other primary sources.
Gordon, Noah. The Physician
A novel of a læce in Anglo-Saxon England and Arabia that is terribly slanted and poorly researched, with about five errors in Anglo-Saxon naming in the first paragraph.
Reany. P. H. A Dictionary of British surnames
The book on English surnames, not exactly a list and not exactly a treatise.
Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum; a List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to That of King John
A glorious collation of names that appar in charters, historical accounts and many other primary accounts.
Smith, Elsdon C. New Dictionary of American Family Names
Contains a lot of information of value to medievalists.
Withycombe, E.G. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names
A reliable and standard source for English personal names, with citations from primary sources.
Yonge, Charlotte M. A History of Christian Names
A dated but still fairly reliable source for personal names across a variety of cultures.
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