{"id":9217,"date":"2025-01-20T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T09:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/?post_type=events&p=9217"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:29:15","slug":"ich-weis-nichts-vom-menschen-wenn-ich-weis-dass-ein-mensch-jacobus-heist-challenges-of-linguistic-and-sociolinguistic-studies-of-personal-names-in-medieval-nubia","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/ich-weis-nichts-vom-menschen-wenn-ich-weis-dass-ein-mensch-jacobus-heist-challenges-of-linguistic-and-sociolinguistic-studies-of-personal-names-in-medieval-nubia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eIch wei\u00df nichts vom Menschen, wenn ich wei\u00df, dass ein Mensch Jacobus hei\u00dft\u201d -Challenges of linguistic and sociolinguistic studies of personal names in medieval Nubia."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite more than a century of scholarship, the Christian kingdoms of Nubia, Nobadia, Makuria, and Alwa, which swayed the region of the Middle Nile between the 6th and 15th centuries, still jealously keep most of their secrets to themselves. While \u201etraditional\u201d approaches of archaeology, history, philology, and art history, not infrequently carried out in isolation from one another, are slowly reaching their limits of cognition,
to push forward the understanding of Christian Nubian civilisation more socially oriented studies are required, which will put the results of these \u201etraditional\u201d domains in a new perspective.
One of the fields where such approach can be tested and bring new insights into this past society is the study of names \u2013 onomastics. Taking advantage of the recent developments in this discipline, which steer away from classical linguistic and etymological works and focus instead on the meaning and functioning of personal names in society, Grzegorz Ocha\u0142a<\/a> tries to mine the extensive collection of anthroponyms used by the Nubians to see what they can tell us about the people who can no longer speak for themselves.
In his #Thursday Colloquium he will focus on the challenges posed by linguistic and formal characteristics of the studied material, ways of talking them, and their bearing on prospective results of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Related publication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

G. Ocha\u0142a, Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia [= The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 16], Warsaw 201<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: A word-cloud with all kinds of names used in Nubia, created by Grzegorz Ocha\u0142a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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