medieval naming resources

[ursula]

I made a couple of resource posts on choosing medieval names for reenactors recently, and sylvaine suggested that I share them here, too.

• Name construction and Appendix A is a guide to using Society for Creative Anachronism resources to get quick-and-dirty name grammar guidelines for a particular medieval culture.
  
• Browsing for historical name data walks through the kinds of searches I do when I'm trying to find raw data on names from a particular time and place, using medieval Bohemia as an example.
  
• I should also mention The Medieval Names Archive, which I maintain!
  

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! Those all sound really useful!

[copperfyre]

These look really useful, thank you! I suspect I will spend more than a few happy hours falling down this rabbit hole!

[ursula]

For miscellaneous browsing, the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, which aryanhwy edits, is also really fun.

[copperfyre]

Ooh, awesome, thanks!

[moon_blitz]

Oh wow, I love the Medieval Names Archive! Thanks for maintaining such a great resource!

[ursula]

Thank you!

[foreverdawning]

This is super helpful! Thank you so much for sharing.

[dimity_blue]

Wow, these are great resources! Thanks for posting them!