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The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
Book
Baker, J., & Carroll, J. (2020). The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society

his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”:

They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.