DENOMINATION OF IDENTITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FRENCH SYSTEM OF ANTHROPONYMY)

Abstract

U ovome se radu nastoji na osnovi francuskih srednjovjekovnih privatnopravnih dokumenata pokazati što sve stoji iza termina ime. Koje pojmove i koncepte taj termin pokriva i je li istinita činjenica da je ime isključivo indikativni, tj. demonstrativni mehanizam. Naime, temeljni korpus za dijakronijsko proučavanje nastanka i razvoja načina identifikacije osoba u europskome kulturološkom krugu zapravo su arhivski dokumenti srednjovjekovnih kancelarija. U imenu se, zapisanom u arhivskim dokumentima, miješaju ekstenzija i intenzija imenske formule, a pri analizi toga korpusa najčešće se, ili uglavnom, ne vodi računa o tome jesu li i u kolikoj mjeri sustavi identifikacije imenom u srednjemu vijeku, dakako prije ustaljivanja imenske formule, kompatibilni s današnjim sustavom. Ovdje se trudimo pokazati u kolikoj mjeri srednjovjekovni zapis kojim se identificira osoba odgovara današnjemu shvaćanju te koji su elementi identifikacije bili presudni u formiranju suvremene imenske formule.The aim of this paper is to attempt to show what lies behind the term name on the basis of Medieval French legal documents. We will try to show which notions and concepts this term covers and try to see whether the claim that name is purely an indicative, that is, demonstrative, mechanism is true. The basic corpus for the diachronic study of the origin and the development of the ways of identifying persons in the European cultural circle consists of archival medieval documents. In the names recorded in archival documents the extension and intension of the naming formula are mixed, and most analyses of such corpora do not take into account whether the systems of identification by name from the Medieval period, prior to the stabilization of the formulae used for naming, are (and if yes, to what extent) compatible with the present day system. In this paper, we try to show to what extent a medieval record identifying a person matches contemporary understanding of such records and which elements were crucial for the development of contemporary formulae used for naming