All Outputs (4)

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.

Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J. (2020). Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence. In J. Story, W. Ormrod, & E. Tyler (Eds.), Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-1500. Oxford University Press

Many English place-names came into existence in the early medieval period as descriptive, meaningful phrases (‘the river estate’, ‘the clear stream’, ‘Edward’s farm’, and so on).They evolved in the conversation of ordinary people as they referred to... Read More about Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence.

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.

Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers (2020)
Journal Article
Pears, B., Brown, A., Carroll, J., Toms, P., Wood, J., & Jones, R. (2020). Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers. European Journal of Archaeology, 23(3), 381-405. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.72

Environmental information from place-names has largely been overlooked by geoarchaeologists and fluvial geomorphologists in analyses of the depositional histories of rivers and floodplains. Here, new flood chronologies for the rivers Teme, Severn, an... Read More about Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers.