Onoma 50 “Medieval Multiculturalism: The Evidence From Names”

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Great news!!! I am happy to announce that proposal of the editorial staff of the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources for a thematic section of the journal Onoma has been accepted. The theme of Onoma 50 will be  

“Medieval Multiculturalism: The Evidence From Names”

Many people view the populations of the Middle Ages as relatively static, with most people never going more than a handful of miles from where they were born, and only those of high status and standing traveling any great distance. One consequence of such a view is the perception of medieval cultures as mono-cultural and consisting of relatively homogeneous peoples.
Records of personal names provide a large body of evidence for a more complex cultural situation, contrary to the simplified view outlined above. The study of names can provide surprising insights into the multiculturalism and motility of medieval peoples, especially as this evidence is often overlooked by historians.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• The names of foreigners recorded in vernacular languages not their own.
• The evidence of locative bynames for travel and migration.
• Mixed-language names.
• Persons with multiple locative bynames.
• The eclipse of “native” names by “Christian” names during the 11th-12th C.
• The evidence from placenames.

Further information about how, what, and when to submit papers for this thematic session will be posted when available.

Call for Themes and Guest Editors: ONOMA 50 & 51

Call for Themes and Guest Editors: ONOMA 50 & 51

by Antti Leino

As the journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, Onoma aims at publishing high-quality papers on all aspects of onomastics. Each yearly volume has a section whose goal is to focus on a particular theme and a non-themed section whose focus is on onomastics in general.

The themed section of an issue is edited by one or several guest editors, whose duties include collecting the submitted articles, proposing a pool of qualified peer reviewers to assist the Editorial Board, and writing an introduction to the section. The Editor in Chief, in turn, will take care of the actual distribution of the submissions to the reviewers and collecting the final articles, as well as editorial duties for the non-themed section.

Onoma is currently looking for proposals for the themed sections of issues 50 (2015) and 51 (2016). In addition to the theme itself, the proposal should include the names and contact information of the section's guest editor(s).

Proposals should be sent by April 30, 2014 to the Editor in Chief:
  Professor Antti Leino
  School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies
  FI-33014 University of Tampere
  +358 50 318 1234
  onoma@icosweb.net

Any queries should be directed at the same address.