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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources

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The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, dmnes.org. Also blogging at dmnes.wordpress.com

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Names and the Reformation: What Can Data Science Tell Us? Guest post by Zhichong Liu (Durham University) dmnes.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/n...
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Names and the Reformation: What Can Data Science Tell Us?
Note: This summer, our editor-in-chief, Prof. Sara L. Uckelman, supervised the research projects of two Master of Data Science students who worked on DMNES data. In this blog post, Zhichong Liu rep…
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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New blog post! We're not dead! "On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names" dmnes.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
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On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names
Though this blog has been rather quiet for rather longer than we might have liked, this doesn’t mean work isn’t being done…it’s just quiet, background work. But there’…
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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
One of my favorite categories of names are virtue names -- both traditional/historical (Sapience! Memorantia!) and modern (Evidence! Reality!). A few weeks ago I was interviewed by two Washington Post journalists and their column came out Friday: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | Puritan baby names are back. Is ’90s culture responsible?
We took a look at data going back to the Revolutionary War and found something shocking: Virtue names such as Hope, Charity and Faith are back and bigger than ever!
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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hello, world! We've shut down business over at The Other Place, and SOMEONE (*cough* @seaxeducation.bsky.social *cough*) asked if we were moving over here. Oh, go on, then. Our EiC always needs more social media accounts to manage!
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