Estructura, uso y funciones del nombre en la Baja Edad Media: el ejemplo de los hidalgos vizcaínos

DACOSTA MARTÍNEZ, Arsenio F.

Publication year:

2001

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Names are signs. And, because of this, the onomastics of the "hidalgos" is not a neutral reference system, but a staunch reflection of internal hierarchy of the lineage and of the need to identify individuals and locate them socially. These onomastics also have notable ideological implications like the attribution of value to the name depending on the position of the individual in the genealogy, the cult to forebears, cultural influences of the European nobility of the period and the conception of the past and of history in the imagination of noblemen.