The Militia List (1419/1420): some considerations about its toponymic and onomastic content

Speaker: Simon Salafia
Language: Maltese

Summary:

Wettinger’s Militia List (published in 1969) provides a valuable sample of the personal names and surnames of people living in Malta in the early fifteenth century. While family names have been analysed by several local scholars, including Wettinger himself, the personal names of our ancestors living in Malta some 600 years ago never appear to have been examined in detail. The aim of this lecture is to present a comprehensive analysis of this corpus of personal names in order to propose more plausible interpretations of local toponyms. Moreover, from an onomastic perspective, these given names reveal Sicilian and Catalan influences inherent in the inventory.

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