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Names and naming patterns in England, 1538-1700

Author: Scott Smith-Bannister
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series: Oxford historical monographs.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Scott Smith-Bannister
ISBN: 0198206631 9780198206637
OCLC Number: 37722991
Description: xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Name-sharing practices --
Names and social status --
English personal names --
appendices: A. A test to measure the degree of standardization in the ordering of the most common names --
B. The measurement of the degree of association between two lists of personal names: an adaptation of Spearman's rank-order correlation --
C. The fifty most common names in forty parishes in each decade --
D. The standard forms of alternative spellings of names.
Series Title: Oxford historical monographs.
Responsibility: Scott Smith-Bannister.
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Results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England.

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