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A History of English Field Names

Author: John Field

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1317897021

Field names are not only interesting in themselves, but also a rich source of information about the communities originating them. The earliest recorded names often describe only the location or nature of the land, but changes in language, technology, social organisation, land ownership and even religious and political thinking have all contributed to a surprisingly complex picture today. A pioneering history.

A New Dictionary of English Field-names

Author: Paul Cavill

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 9780904889994

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Discovering Place-Names

Author: John Field

Publisher: Shire Publications

Published: 2008-03-04

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780747806172

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Explains the meanings of more than 1500 place-names and discusses the techniques by which this information is obtained.

The Cambridge History of the English Language

Author: Richard M. Hogg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 9780521264778

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The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.

English Field Names

Author: John Field

Publisher: Sutton Publishing

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Alliteration in Culture

Author: Jonathan Roper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0230305873

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Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.

Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy - Défis de la toponymie synchronique

Author: Jonas Schnabel-Le Corre, Betina Löfström

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2015-09-04

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3772084796

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Anglo-Saxon History

Author: David A.E. Pelteret

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1000525910

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First published in 2000, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (BRASE) is a series of volumes that collect classic, exemplary, or ground-breaking essays in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies generally written in the 1960s or later, or commissioned by a volume editor to fulfill the purpose of the given volume. This, the sixth volume in the series, is the first devoted to history and the first edited by a scholar outside the field of literary study. David Pelteret has collected fifteen previously published essays: the first nine of his essays present a conspectus of Anglo-Saxon history; the other seven are spread among seven "Special Approaches": Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Economic and Comparative History, Geography and Geology, Place-Names, and Topography and Archaeology.

A Companion to Chivalry

Author: Robert W. Jones

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1783273720

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A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

A Dictionary of British Place-Names

Author: David Mills

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-20

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 019960908X

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From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.