Итоги междисциплинарного семинара «Историческая ономастика и этническая история»

http://archtat.ru/ru/archive/photo/34/

4 апреля 2016 года в Академии наук Республики Татарстан состоялся междисциплинарный семинар «Историческая ономастика и этническая история», организованный Институтом археологии им. А.Х. Халикова и Казанским (Приволжским) федеральным университетом.

О происхождении географических названий и возможностях топонимики, как источнике важного дополнительного материала к данным археологии и других смежных наук, а также основных методах, с помощью которых можно определить происхождение тех или иных субстратных топонимов сообщил д.филол.н. Олег Смирнов (Екатеринбург).

К.филол.н. Александр Пустяков (Хельсинки) свое сообщение посвятил вопросу пермских топонимов на территории Ветлужско-Вятского междуречья. Анализ топонимического материала и картографирование выявленных в ходе анализа топонимов позволяют выделить ареал удмуртской топонимии, которая совпадает с ареалом распространения этнотопонимов с компонентом «удмуртский».

Работу семинара завершил его модератор д.и.н., член-корреспондент РАН Владимир Напольских с докладом «Финно-угорская этнонимия Поволжья и Предуралья как исторический источник», в котором подверг анализу самоназвания и внешние названия финно-угорских народов Поволжья и Предуралья с точки зрения отражения в них этнической истории региона.

В заключение семинара состоялась оживленная дискуссия.

Onomastique indigène à Byzance et à Cyzique

https://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=DHA_HS15_0047

Dialogues d'histoire ancienne

2016/1 (Supplément 15)

Identité régionale, identités civiques autour des Détroits des Dardanelles et du Bosphore

(V^e siècle av. J.-C. – II^e siècle apr. J.-C.)

• Pages : 318
• Éditeur : Presses Univ. de Franche-Comté
• ISBN : 9782848675435
• ISSN : 0755-7256
• Site internet

Onomastique indigène à Byzance et à Cyzique

par Dan Dana CNRS/ANHIMA (UMR 8210), Paris

ddana_ddan.at.yahoo.com

Résumé

Français

La place et le statut des indigènes dans les territoires de confins et de passage, comme Byzance et Cyzique, constituent un sujet qui ne fait pas l’unanimité. Cité grecque pour la plupart des historiens, cité thrace ou « thracisée » pour d’autres, le cas de Byzance est révélateur pour les enjeux idéologiques des savants modernes et pour l’utilisation circonstancielle des sources. La présence de deux onomastiques indigènes légèrement différentes, à savoir thrace et bithynienne, différenciation désormais évidente, suggère la complexité intrinsèque de cette région. Cyzique, cité majeure de la côte méridionale de la Propontide, avec une extension territoriale remarquable, est marquée par une plus grande complexité des rapports avec les populations indigènes (Mysiens, Bithyniens, Thraces, Phrygiens). Une nouvelle analyse onomastique, qui exploite les outils les plus récents, permettra de mettre en évidence l’intérêt des occurrences de noms indigènes dans un espace de rencontre privilégié entre populations indigènes et hellénisme.

English

Indigenous Onomastics in Byzantium and CyzicusThe place and status of native populations in border or transit territories, such as Byzantium and Cyzicus, are a topic on which there is no unanimity. Byzantium, a Greek city for most historians, Thracian or “Thracianized” for others, is a revealing case when it comes to ideological stakes among modern scholars and the circumstantial use of sources. The presence of two slightly different indigenous onomastics, namely Thracian and Bithynian, though now obvious, suggests the intrinsic complexity of this region. Cyzicus, the foremost city on the southern coast of the Propontis, with a remarkable territorial extension, is marked by a greater complexity of relationships with indigenous populations (Mysians, Bithynians, Thracians, Phrygians). A new onomastic analysis, using the most recent tools, makes it possible to highlight interesting occurrences of indigenous names in a privileged place of encounter between indigenous peoples and Hellenism.

Plan de l'article

1. I. Particularités de l’épigraphie de Byzance et de Cyzique
2. II. L’onomastique indigène
3. III. Le contexte des attestations
4. Conclusion
5. Abréviations

Историческая ономастика и этническая история

http://archtat.ru/ru/archive/news/57/

Ученым советом Института археологии Академии наук Республики Татарстан утвержден план проведения междисциплинарных семинаров в 2016 г., проводимых Институтом совместно с Казанским федеральным университетом.

Апрель 2016 г.

Тема семинара: «Историческая ономастика и этническая история»

Основные докладчики:

Смирнов Олег Витальевич, к. филол. н. (Екатеринбург) «Происхождение географических названий: возможности для исследования этнической истории Среднего и Верхнего Поволжья»

Пустяков Александр Леонидович, к. филол. н. (Хельсинки) «К вопросу о реконструкции этнического ландшафта Ветлужско-Вятского междуречья: древнеудмуртская топонимия»

Янне Саарикиви, проф. (Хельсинки) «Субстратная финно-угорская топонимика севера Восточной Европы»

Напольских Владимир Владимирович, член-корр. РАН (Ижевск) «Финно-угорская этнонимия Поволжья и Предуралья как исторический источник»

Conference on Babylonian Names and Name-Giving

http://www.americannamesociety.org/conference-on-babylonian-names-and-name-giving-leuven-belgium-february-8-9-2016/

http://blog.greatermesopotamia.be/#user31

BANANA Conference 2016

ActivitiesGeschrieben von Melanie Gross Di, Dezember 22, 2015 10:58:58

The project Greater Mesopotamia Reconstruction of its Environment and History, Work package V:

History and Chronology is looking forward to its First International BANANA Conference

BABYLONIAN NAME AND NAME-GIVING:
WHAT NAMES TELL US ABOUT SOCIAL REALITIES

which will be held at the University of Leuven on February 8–9, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Babylon

Recent years have seen major advances in the prosopographic study of cuneiform sources from second and first millennium BCE Babylonia with the publication of a large number of archival documents containing thousands of personal names from the Old, Middle and Neo-Babylonian periods. Thus we have the resources to look for and define patterns in the selection of names and to evaluate their significance.

The study of Babylonian personal names has hitherto focused primarily on the linguistic characteristics of the names, analyzing their constitutive elements and classifying them in different types. However, names also bear socio-historical information about the name-bearer, his or her family and the society in which (s)he lived. They usually reveal a great deal about cultural origins, social situations prevailing at a given time, changing conditions and changes in the structural make up of society or society’s ethnic make-up.

The aims of the conference are to investigate how cuneiform onomastic data can contribute to our understanding of Babylonia’s social history, and which theoretical and technical frameworks are needed to gather and use the vast onomastic data from second and first millennium BCE Babylonia for this purpose successfully. The conference focuses on given names as well as ancestral or family names, and is not limited to one period of Babylonian history but favors a diachronic approach with the focus on changes in naming trends, especially between the second and the first millennium BCE.
The conference endeavors to include a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines concerned with a span of topics, areas and periods as they relate to names and name giving practices in Babylonia in the second and first millennia BCE.

We welcome talks that situate Babylonia’s onomastic data within theoretical frameworks such as Social Network Analysis or the ongoing structure versus agency debate of the social sciences, and reflect upon the following topics and questions:

- the relationship between the type of name and the person’s belonging to a particular sector of society, as for instance exemplified by the existence of slave names and occupational names (Beamtennamen)

- the appearance of tri-partite names and usage of family names

- the distribution of names and name patterns within families within one generation of the same family and from one generation to the other

- the circumstances surrounding the use of abbreviated names, nicknames (incl. those of the so-called Banana-type), double names and hybrid names (esp. in multicultural environments), and those surrounding the change of name (e.g. passage from one life stage to another; change in the profession, class or status of the person)

- the incorporation of non-Babylonian names into the elite Babylonian families and vice-versa the acceptance of Babylonian names by immigrant populations, and other cross-cultural name combinations seen in the onomastic record that touch upon the elusive concept of “Babylonianess”

- the choice of name in priestly families as a way to express ideological identification

- the feasibility of developing a digital name corpus for first millennium BCE Babylonia through international and interdisciplinary collaboration

More information:

kathleen.abraham@arts.kuleuven.be

melanie.gross@kuleuven.be

program

Every day is Christmas when you’re an onomast

https://dmnes.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/everyday-is-christmas-when-youre-an-onomast/

Sometimes, when I stop and think about the scale of our undertaking, it can seem a bit daunting. EVERY name from EVERY European document for more than 1000 years? 1000 editorial assistants working 1000 years wouldn’t be enough, if you think about it rationally.

So the easiest thing to do is don’t (think about it rationally, that is). We know this is a big project, and one that will hopefully outlive us. And in the meantime, one way to make incremental steps towards breadth of coverage — rather than the depth that we could get if we, say, concentrated on 16th C English parish registers — is by keeping many pots on the stove at once, that is, working on multiple sources at once. Each editorial assistant can choose what and how many projects to have on hand at the same time, with some choosing to keep to their onomastic specialities (such as Hungarian) or to a culturally-linked but relatively under-developed area in terms of medieval onomastic research (such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland), while others of us simply flit from source to source as new possibilities become available.

One result of this tactic is that you never know what you are going to find. Those of you who follow us on Twitter know that last week thanks to a Cambridge University Press booksale we came away with 19 volumes from their “Cambridge Library Collection” on the cheap. One of them, Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320, caught my eye because we have had some people complain (with justification) that our current coverage of Ireland is quite minimal. (It’s not nonexistent, but currently we have Irish citations in only five entries, Henry, Laurence, Ralph, Robert, and William, none of which, the astute reader will note, are especially Irish.) Tonight I sat down to flip through it, and item III is a late 12th C document headed “Dublin Roll of Names” — 45 pages of them. Most of them are distinctly Anglo-Irish in origin, but casual flipping shows a little bit of the underlying Gaelic substrate peaking through, such as an occurrence of Padin, a Gaelic diminutive of Patrick; Gillafinean, a form of Gaelic Gilla Finnén; and Galgethel, at the moment unfamiliar but almost certainly to be Gaelic in origin. 45 pages of names from Dublin? It’s like Christmas has come three months early.

In addition to systematically working our way through sources transcribing names, we also often do individual consultations for people who are looking for further information about the use of a particular name, and these searches often serendipitously lead to gems. The other day, while searching for examples of Avawhich were not diminutives, we found a mid-11th C charter from Ghent with the most lovely list of women and their daughters, some familiar, some distinctly unusual:

Ermengardis, Emma, Tisvidis, Ava, Ermentrudis, Memlendis, Lulend, Badin, Nodelend, Bivin, Bernewif

This afternoon, speculation on Facebook about how an early 9th C Frankish woman could’ve ended up with the given name Suspecta lead us to return to the original source to look up the names of her family members, which include fatherTeutfredusb (Theodefrid, mother Fulca (entry available in the next edition, s.n. Fulka), and siblings Seats (obscure, in both origin and gender), Teodarus(Theodeher), Gisledrudis (entry available in the next edition, s.n. Giseltrude), and Teodara (entry available in the next edition, s.n. Theodara).

I’ve been studying names in some form or another for more than two decades, and the thrill of finding an onomastic gem never fades. The Dictionary is, to some extent, merely an excuse to go on finding them.

Nomen impiorum putrescet. Exclure par le nom dans la France et l’Angleterre du haut Moyen Âge

https://www.academia.edu/10002513/Nomen_impiorum_putrescet._Exclure_par_le_nom_dans_la_France_et_l_Angleterre_du_haut_Moyen_%C3%82ge

by Arnaud Lestremau

Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Histoire, Post-Doc

https://univ-paris1.academia.edu/ArnaudLestremau