Person und Name: Methodische Probleme bei der Erstellung eines Personennamenbuches des Frühmittelalters

Seventeen papers from a colloquium held in Hamburg in 1997 on the methodological problems involved in creating past and present lexicons of late antique and early medieval personal and family names. Combining philological, onomastic and prosopographic studies, contributors examine both specific, mostly German, collections such as the Gallische Prosopographie 260-527 and the Lexicon der altergermanischen namen , as well as more general themes. These include studies on the continuation of Latin names, Scandinavian names and an English paper on the study of Old English personal names. Mostly German text.