Imiona krakowskich sióstr dominikanek (XVII-XVIII w.)

Abstract

The article is a kind of complement to the publication of Prof. dr hab. Józefa Kobylińska on the names of the Dominican fathers from the 17th and 18th centuries (2018). The aim of this text is to analyse the names of the Dominican nuns from the same period (17th–18th century) in order to complete the image of the Dominican religious naming in Krakow. The analysis revealed 71 anthroponyms that were used to name nuns in the described period, showed their occurrence, popularity and motivation, and pointed to the genesis of creation as a religious name. The article also classifies names according to cultural and religious sources, compares the collection of female names with male Dominican names, and describes the evolution of the name change practice in the Dominican Order.