Anglo-Saxon Many medieval names for boys are still popular today. Thomas is likely one you’ve seen a time or two, and his origins date back hundreds of years. There’s also Nathan, a pick who’s held onto popularity with his handsome styling. Milo has seen a sudden resurgence on the ...
and its by-name (Noanamn) in swedish was ‘varg’ who’s original meaning was thief, or a generally bad person (a ‘Kasevarg’ was an arsonist). By-names was used for creatures that was feared, as using its real name supposedly would ...
What’s interesting is that there are older non Christian (perhaps even ancient) customs surviving in there, the celebrations starting on the eve before, the spring clean, the death divination rituals, the appearance of wren boys on Stephen’s Day, the remembrance of the dead. Marion this is...
dated 14 October 1930, asked whether a gate could be installed, as it is “liable to be desecrated by boys using it as a urinal, in fact, some boys have already been using it”. And a contemporary cutting from the Nenagh Guardian noted that . . . works cost thousands of pounds are ...
Most huntsmen began as pages when they were young boys. They lived with the dogs and learned all their names, and they cleaned the kennels and changed the dogs’ straw bedding. Some kennels had straw-covered posts for the dogs to urinate on, with channels in the floor to carry the urine...
Boys from noble families spent their days learning combat skills, music, art, and court etiquette Girls from noble families learned basic domestic skills Children in towns and cities became apprentices or employers at a young age Life of Monks ...
‘whom I find in almes for Goddis sake called my childe’.100Thomasyne Percyvale was bringing up five such children at the time she made her will in 1503. The boys were to be educated for the Church or apprenticed; the girls were to be bound to good masters at the age of fourteen,...
pp. 197–198).[8] For example, in the 13th century the town of Ypres was one of the most important Flemish towns sending merchants to the fairs of Champagne, yet a document from 1277 ostensibly signed by “all” of the Ypres merchants attending those fairs contained eleven names (Moore ...
We think boys played women’s parts (as, a couple of generations later, they would for Shakespeare); I have no particular evidence for thinking that a medieval midwife might be recognised by her bag of medicines (like an Edwardian doctor), but I liked the idea. Writing this, I tried to...
Medieval peasant children wore cloaks, tunics, and woolen socks. Medieval children also wore different kinds of hats, for boys, there were round hats whereas the girls had bonnets. Medieval Royal Children’s Lives Medieval Royal Children were usually Prince and Princesses and lived in castles or ...