| dc.description.abstract | Monograph Imiona zakonne karmelitanek bosych (od XVII do 1. połowy
XX wieku) is the fruit of almost ten years of research on religious
names. The main purpose of the work was to analyze the collected
religious names of the Discalced Carmelites from all Polish
monasteries from the seventeenth century to the first half of twentieth
century (full onimic material for each of the periods). The
temporal scope was dictated, on the one hand, by the foundation
of the first Carmelite monastery in Polish lands, and on the other
hand by the change in the practice of giving religious names in
this order, which took place in the second half of twentieth century.
The work has an interdisciplinary nature by design, which is
caused by the specificity of the social group in which the discussed
anthroponyms functioned and function nowadays.
The presented monograph consists of an Introduction which
includes: the most important information about the purpose and
assumptions of the work (among others, the documentative description
of the onyms, their diachronic analysis, description of
genesis and motivation of the names); methodological basis of the
description (in this paragraph I focused on indicating the most important
tools for developing the onymic material collected: objective
and documentary analysis, statistical method or sociolinguistic
approach in onomastic research, as well as auxiliary tools, such as
those taken from a theolinguistic approach) and the description of
used sources (both printed and manuscript). The subsequent section
of the Introduction raises the most important terminological
issues, first of all by clarifying the term religious name – it includes
definition of the term, the most important functions of the religious
name, the specific structure of the analyzed onyms, as well
as an attempt to determine to which anthroponyms category the
religious names should be assigned. The ways the religious name
functions in a social group (religious community) are discussed on
the following pages, as well as the differences between religious
names and Christian names.
Further part of the dissertation presents the most important information
about the Carmelite Order – its historical outline, including
the reform carried out in the 16th century, significance (both
in the Catholic Church and on the Polish lands) and also the crucial
points of Carmelite spirituality, which are closely connected
with analyzed material (above all with the theological meaning of
the analyzed anthroponyms, with the selection of specific denominations
or with the shape of the religious name and its predicates).
The third chapter is a presentation of the present state of research
on Polish religious names, both female and male. The lack of
any monograph on this subject is noteworthy, as is the fact that
the articles that have appeared so far only constitute fragmentary
research (usually names from one monastery of a particular order
and a specific one age).
Chapter four describes the practice of changing name in the
order. It discusses (based on Italian and Polish sources) its genesis
and also shows the custom of changing name in various religious
communities, with particular emphasis on the Carmelite Order.
An important part of this part of the dissertation is the presentation
of the evolution of this practice over time.
The next chapter of the dissertation begins the analytical part of
the work on the collected religious names of the Discalced Carmelites.
It discusses the origin and motivation of the analyzed anthroponyms,
and – if it has occurred (this does not apply to names
transferred from Christian names) – word-formation phenomena
used to create individual names. In order to organize the presented
material, the division of religious names into names derived
from proper and proprietary names was introduced.
In the sixth chapter, a diachronic analysis was carried out (each
subsection is a discussion of names from a given age, from the
seventeenth to the first half of the twentieth century, including the
first, second and third names). Diachronic research has allowed to
show both the onimic state in particular periods, as well as changes
that have occurred over the centuries. It has become possible
to indicate the development of the structure of names and to show
the most popular units over the centuries. Following passsage
shows also permanent names, that is occurring in all subsequent
periods, and variables – characteristic for a given time.
The seventh chapter presents the results of research on the predicates
of religious names of the Discalced Carmelites. Starting
from the semantic typology of these units (twelve semantic groups
were distinguished, in each group there were structures referring
to other theological content), performing the function of definite
descriptions, it closes with the presentation of changes that took
place in this part of the religious name on the space of ages.
In turn, in the eighth chapter, the dependence of the religious
names of the Discalced Carmelites from their Christian names was
analyzed (also in the diachronic aspect), which allowed to sketch
several structural types, according to which the Christian name often
went to be the religious one, becoming a part of it. The results
of this analysis were compared with the results of analyzes of (in)
dependence of male religious names on Christian names.
The ninth chapter compares the scope of religoius names of the
Discalced Carmelites with the scope of names in other religious orders.
Three aspects were particularly important here: the practice of
changing the name, the structure of the religious name, and the comparison
between religious names of the Discalced Carmelites and extracted
from other religious orders. Four other female monasteries
were chosen (functioning in Poland in the analyzed period, that is
from the seventeenth to the twentieth century) to conduct comparitve
study: Augustians, Bernardines, Dominicans and Visitandines.
The Summary includes the most important conclusions regarding
the religious names of the Discalced Carmelites (including
functioning in particular ages, the evolution of the entire system of
the Carmelite religious names, resource, structure) and the most
important features of religious names.
The monograph is closed with a dictionary of discussed religoius
names of the Discalced Carmelite nuns (units that appeared
as first, second and/or third name), a bibliography and an appendix
presenting a list of full religious names given in the congregation
of the Discalced Carmelites from the seventeenth to the first half of
twentieth century.
To sum up, it is worth noting that the results of the analyzes that
have been presented in this book may serve as a basis and reference
point in research conducted by linguists (but also theologians or
sociologists) who will want to undertake research on religious nomenclature.
The collected and presented material also opens up perspectives
for further research on this branch of anthroponomastics. | en |
