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Women’s names

Clark, Cecily ‘Women’s names in post-conquest England : observations and speculations’ Speculum 53 (1978), 223-51
Notes: covers 1100 – 1175

Morgan, Gerald   ‘Naming Welsh women’. Nomina, 18 (1995), 119-39.
Notes: covers 600 – 1900

Postles, David   ‘The distinction of gender? : women’s names in the thirteenth century’. Nomina, 19 (1996), 79-89.
Notes: covers 1200 – 1300

______ Gender Trouble’ (Judith Butler) : Describing English women in the twelth and thirteenth centuries’. Nomina, 24 (2001), 47-66.
Notes: covers 1100 – 1300

Sharpe, Pamela. ‘Women’s names : some problems for reconstitution analysis’. Local Population Studies, 59 (1997), 60-61.
Notes: covers 1740 – 1805

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