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Attestations of personal names in oldest Croatian historical sources

The proposed presentation will offer an insight into recent research of historical attestations of Croatian anthroponymy, ranging from the 8th century to the end of the medieval era. The research has been successful in designating a significant number of the oldest attestations of different categories of personal names. Since medieval Croatia was located between several influential political spheres. This situation was quite well reflected in frequency and prevalence, as well as temporal and spatial layout of certain categories of anthroponymical attestations. Two largest and most important categories of personal names are Christian (and saints') personal names and Croatian, Slavic (or simply folk) personal names. Thanks to the fact that there were also several different cultural influences in Croatian medieval history, anthroponymical attestations also reflect different linguistic influences. Research that will be presented in the proposed presentation is currently being conducted within the project Documentation and interpretation of the oldest Croatian. The presentation will include several case studies, dedicated to the research of specific categories of personal names in historical context (based on historical attestations obtained from the research projects’ database.

anthroponimy, historical attestations, medieval personal names, historical sources

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