Sure! What kind of research question did you have in mind? The techniques for finding specific names are different from the techniques for finding general data on names from a particular culture.
Finding general data on names from a particular culture, but I mean, it's all interesting to me.
(Context: My particular area of interest is 14th-15th century Bohemia, and there's not a ton of collected data on names for that time/place, particularly bynames. I've seen a lot of "oh, they used locatives and patronymics/metronymics," but not a lot of sources cited, that I've found, and I'd love to compile a larger body of data that I and others can draw from.)
Sure! This should be interesting to write up, since I suspect I take huge portions of the process for granted. Though for the strudel I posted about recently, I did the obvious thing and looked at modern recipes for strudel and pie filling in order to figure out the quantities.
I loved the discussion about the things people choose in the SCA and why. Would you be willing to talk more about observations of dynamics like that in the SCA?
Absolutely! Is there a particular medieval or modern phenomenon you're interested in?
I posted a bunch of stuff recently-ish about gender and titles in the SCA that you might find interesting; the big post is here, and then further developments are tagged as "sca" or "titles".
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Date: 2018-12-26 11:39 pm (UTC)(Context: My particular area of interest is 14th-15th century Bohemia, and there's not a ton of collected data on names for that time/place, particularly bynames. I've seen a lot of "oh, they used locatives and patronymics/metronymics," but not a lot of sources cited, that I've found, and I'd love to compile a larger body of data that I and others can draw from.)
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Date: 2018-12-28 05:43 pm (UTC)I posted a bunch of stuff recently-ish about gender and titles in the SCA that you might find interesting; the big post is here, and then further developments are tagged as "sca" or "titles".
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Date: 2018-12-28 03:35 am (UTC)Like Spanish names. How does one find the general usual rules for a woman's name in Christian Spain, 1500's?
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