tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3132450274935351551..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Personal Names in Historical Fiction - Katherine LangrishMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-1364285723449838172017-04-11T08:13:56.322+01:002017-04-11T08:13:56.322+01:00Love the Hundred Years' War gaffe!Love the Hundred Years' War gaffe!Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-44923447145136291792017-04-11T08:13:03.644+01:002017-04-11T08:13:03.644+01:00Publishers, and proof readers, are mainly not expe...Publishers, and proof readers, are mainly not expert themselves, I think..Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-2716974975262263322017-04-10T21:41:51.335+01:002017-04-10T21:41:51.335+01:00Fascinating blog, thank you. I wonder if publisher...Fascinating blog, thank you. I wonder if publishers let historic anachronisms slip through because modern readers find it 'easier' to relate to names they know, or just because they can't be bothered?<br />My favourite quote is from an American film my father-in -law claimed to have seen in the 1940s: Man in knitted chain mail and brylcremed hair leaps onto battlement and proclaims, 'Men of the Middle Ages, we are about to embark on the hundred years war!'Janie Hamptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474227107768216646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54835330367750381262017-04-09T15:06:00.808+01:002017-04-09T15:06:00.808+01:00No worse than LAKE Windermere or even Lake Ullswat...No worse than LAKE Windermere or even Lake Ullswater!Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-57564409098013716102017-04-09T13:01:32.426+01:002017-04-09T13:01:32.426+01:00That last one! Oops! That last one! Oops! Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-47550968102422769032017-04-08T13:05:26.507+01:002017-04-08T13:05:26.507+01:00It's forgivable when an amateur, or someone on...It's forgivable when an amateur, or someone on their first - usually self published - book gets it wrong, but a while ago I got a review book that had so many errors in historical naming - as well as others - I wondered about the editing team at that publisher. No names here - I ended up giving the author an interview instead and keeping the questions careful - but it was by a best-selling author who ought to have known better. I can only assume the publisher decided not to bother too much with editing as the book would sell anyway.<br /><br />And then there was the convent known as Our Lady of Notre Dame, ie, "Our Lady of Our Lady..."Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-14910942033801732112017-04-05T15:42:08.137+01:002017-04-05T15:42:08.137+01:00Aethelflaete makes me think of too many beans for ...Aethelflaete makes me think of too many beans for dinner, though...Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-56200541544161885472017-04-05T15:40:48.823+01:002017-04-05T15:40:48.823+01:00I used baptismal registers and burial records (fro...I used baptismal registers and burial records (from the County Archives) for the 17th C names in Malefice. I'm impressed by the care and scholarship demonstrated by my colleagues here.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54935986279351160282017-04-05T09:13:01.447+01:002017-04-05T09:13:01.447+01:00Elizabeth, thanks for your comment. Yes, isn't...Elizabeth, thanks for your comment. Yes, isn't Tiffany a Breton name? The wife of the famous Bertrand du Guesclin was (I think) a Breton lady called Tiffany: rumour had it she was in fact a fairy. Cat, your book sounds wonderful! Sue - thanks! Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-86520678488164955202017-04-04T23:48:38.090+01:002017-04-04T23:48:38.090+01:00I have a fascinating book (found in a second hand ...I have a fascinating book (found in a second hand book shop) called "Names through the ages" by Teresa Norman. There are lists for various periods of history in it and seeing the gradual changes, the names that have disappeared and those that have survived says so much about the way we have changed too.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-6354427199719956622017-04-04T11:01:38.940+01:002017-04-04T11:01:38.940+01:00Thank you, Katherine, for a fascinating and useful...Thank you, Katherine, for a fascinating and useful post - and thank you, Elizabeth, for a fascinating comment!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20368594642538110552017-04-04T09:57:37.258+01:002017-04-04T09:57:37.258+01:00Interesting. I have studied names of that period e...Interesting. I have studied names of that period extensively for my own research. There's nothing better than getting right back to primary source for studying those names. I have curia regis rolls, pipe rolls and feets of fines for various counties in my chosen period of the 12th thru 13th centuries. I can say that you will find Thomas occasionally among the Saxon names and John is prolific soon after the Norman Conquest.<br />It's fascinating to find regional variations among the names and you will find the Scandinavian names lingering on until the reign of King John in Norfolk - Ketil, Hakon, Gunnilda etc, but then changing as parents give their sons and daughters Norman names. There's a definite shift.<br />With female names there is much to surprise one. Tiffany and Gemma for example, and even Snow-White - (spelled as Snowit and Snawit).<br />It's a fascinating subject.Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.com