Middle ages time period names1/2/2024 ![]() The legacy of the betrayal lasted long in Christian Europe.Īt this rate, we’re probably going to only make it through the top 100 before the month is out. However, this is a topic that we can revisit again in a few years, to see if things have changed! One omission, though, is noteworthy: We have not yet found a single example of any form of Jude, Judas, Judah. Of course, our data set is by no means comprehensive in coverage, and thus we cannot say whether any gaps demonstrated in this post are due to the incompleteness of our data or due to the fact that the name was not used. We’ve discussed all of these names before, in posts discussing the influence of Protestantism on the 16th-century naming pool, and in posts discussing the medieval roots of modern names but here we want to focus on when and where these names were used in Europe: Country (After his betrayal of Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot was replaced by Matthias). Nevertheless, the names of the “canonical” disciples are, in their modern English forms: Andrew Bartholomew James, the son of Alphaeus James, the son of Zebedee John Judas Iscariot Jude/Thaddeus Matthew Philip Simon Peter Simon the Zealot and Thomas. The Biblical disciples (or apostles) are traditionally numbered as 12, though because different gospels name different ones, and also use different names for the same, the numbers don’t always quite add up. Which struck us as something that would make a nice blog post in itself! It’s an odd collection of words and phrases that bring people to this blog, but recently someone came here via searching for Coastillon – Not quite sure what this is but it looks like a misspelling of some French place name.Cabrera – This is Spanish, and would only have been used by women the masculine form is Cabrero. ![]()
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