中世フランス文学研究者Paul Rockwell先生が、同志社とAmherstとの提携により来日され、アーサー王文学やダンテ、ウェルギリス関連の講演をされます.
ぜひお越しください。
Professor Paul V. Rockwell
Henry C. Folger 1879 Professor of French, Amherst College
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There is a pattern written across the map of England.
“-ham”
“-ton”
“-bury”
Names like Nottingham, Southampton, and Canterbury are not random.
They are over a thousand years old.
And they come from the Anglo-Saxons.
“-ham” meant a homestead or village.
It appears in names like Birmingham, Nottingham, and Durham.
These were settled places, communities built to last.
“-ton” meant a farm or enclosed settlement.
Luton, Taunton, and Brighton all began as small agricultural communities.
Places defined by land, work, and order.
“-bury”, often evolved into “-borough” meant a fortified place.
Canterbury, Salisbury, and Scarborough.
These were defended settlements, often with walls or earthworks.
Next time you pass a place ending in “-ham” or “-ton”, you’re looking at a name over 1,000 years old.
You don’t need a history book to find Anglo-Saxon England.
You just need a map.
What does your local place name say about its past?
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