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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 9

Hello, world!

We've shut down business over at The Other Place, and SOMEONE (*cough* @seaxeducation.bsky.social *cough*) asked if we were moving over here.

Oh, go on, then. Our EiC always needs more social media accounts to manage!

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 8d

New blog post! We're not dead!

"On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names"

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On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names

Though this blog has been rather quiet for rather longer than we might have liked, this doesn’t mean work isn’t being done…it’s just quiet, background work. But there’…

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 31

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Nov 8

Best name ever: Gybylygabyly!

Gybylygabyly was a thief who abjured England sometime around the year 1275.

A criminal record from the thirteenth century. It is brownish black ink written on parchment (i.e. animal skin). The writing is in abbreviated Latin. One name is circled in red in the image. The name is Gybylygabyly.

Reference: The National Archives, London, JUST 1/1026, m. 35d

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · Dec 15

One of my favorite categories of names are virtue names -- both traditional/historical (Sapience! Memorantia!) and modern (Evidence! Reality!). A few weeks ago I was interviewed by two Washington Post journalists and their column came out Friday:

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Column | Puritan baby names are back. Is ’90s culture responsible?

We took a look at data going back to the Revolutionary War and found something shocking: Virtue names such as Hope, Charity and Faith are back and bigger than ever!

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 10

We have no budget for postage, so you'll just have to accept this electronic version instead!

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 9

So perhaps our EiC and our tech guru will have a moment to sit down on a couch and revisit a couple of error messages that have popped up in the last few months, and see if we can't get the engine of things running again.

Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 9

Life at DMNES central has been rather quiet since the pandemic, and we're not sure how much that'll change in the near future. However, there's nothing like Christmas vacation at the in-laws to turn the mind back to onomastics (ever notice how many of our editions come out at the end of a year?)

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Dec 9

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