Namen und Geschichte in der Zeit der Einnamigkeit (ca. 400–1100)
Steffen Patzold
Introduction. – This contribution lays out the core questions that connect following papers read at a conference in Tübingen 2014 and briefly summarizes their main arguments. These contributions address two major problems: They offer foundation for productively overcoming „genealogisch-besitzgeschichtliche Methode“ (a method based on similarities of names proximity property analyzing family connections) which was widely used by historians middle ages until 1980s social history with aid personal names. The also show how far secondary (of very different types) influenced practices naming already so-called single-name period.
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