Historia (hyper)textus, historia digitalis

Abstract

Arvostelu teoksesta: Milligan, Ian 2019. History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 310.

Using the concept of onomastic literacy as an analytical tool

“…The same approach can be applied to a wide range of local and familial communities, although each must be studied on its own terms with regard to the era and sphere of activity of the individuals concerned, in other words, taking into account the whole historical and cultural context. The previous research that I have conducted on the name-giving practices of family communities in the rural interior of Finland from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries (see, e.g., Kotilainen 2008;Kotilainen 2011;Kotilainen 2016) has shown that people in local communities very often had some kind of common 'literacy' of mentalities which guided the choice and use of names in families, and that exceptions in the use of names broke these unwritten norms.…”

“…For example, down the centuries gender has been a significant factor in the identification of individuals. The social position of a woman in particular has been defined by means of naming practices that have specified her relationship to the (male) head of the family (Garðarsdóttir 1999:301;Kotilainen 2016;Nakari 2011).…”