Arabs changed the Christian system on names in the Middle Ag

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Arabs changed the Christian system on names in the Middle Ag

Legg inn av pain perdu » 01 des 2006 13:32:56

Have the crusaders brought some Arabian or Greek elements to fertilise
their names ? By what way can we approach this subject ?

Nathaniel Taylor

Re: Arabs changed the Christian system on names in the Middl

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 01 des 2006 15:13:07

In article <1164976376.289497.303120@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"pain perdu" <keyukato@navy.plala.or.jp> wrote:

Have the crusaders brought some Arabian or Greek elements to fertilise
their names ? By what way can we approach this subject ?

You could start with Iris Shagrir, _Naming Patterns in the Latin Kingdom
of Jerusalem_ (Oxford: Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre
College, 2003), which I reviewed in _Speculum_ 81 (2006), 1254-55 -- see:

http://www.nltaylor.net/pdfs/r_Shagrir.pdf

The upshot is that it is difficult to discern specific naming trends
either among the Franks of Outremer, or in Frankish Europe as a result
of crusade & colonization. The increase in Greek and apostolic saints'
names in the general Western European forename stock which does peak in
the 12th and 13th centuries (e.g. John, the most popular name in Europe
from the 13th c. onward) is likely due to a much broader and longer-term
influence of Greek traditions than what happened in Palestine in the
12th or Morea in the 13th centuries.

In contrast, in Iberia there certainly were Arabic (and other Southern)
influences on the Christian name stock which are not found elsewhere in
Europe, but which were brought into the population more through the long
_convivencia_ than by 'crusaders'. Iberian names are a fascinating
group.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

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