Dave Postles is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at State University New York, Stony Brook. He has published widely on women, family, and social history in the late medieval period.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart I: IntroductionNames and Naming Patterns in Medieval England: An Introduction by Joel T. RosenthalEnglish Personal Names ca. 650–1300: Some Prosopographical Bearings by Cecily ClarkIdentity and Identification: Some Recent Research into the English Medieval "Forename" by Dave PostlesPart II: Scoial GroupsWomen’s Names in Post-Conquest England: Observations and Speculations by Cecily ClarkThe Popularity of Late Medieval Personal Names as Reflected in English Ordination Lists, 1350–1540 by Virginia DavisSpiritual Kinship and the Baptismal Name in Traditional European Society by Michael BennettBaptism and the Naming of Children in Late Medieval England by Philip NilesSocial Connections between Parents and Godparents in Late Medieval Yorkshire by Louis HaasNormans, Saints, and Politics: Forename Choice among Fourteenth-Century Gloucestershire Peasants by Peter FranklinPart III: Local SocietiesSome Aspects of Regional Variation in Early Middle English Personal Nomenclature by John InsleyComparing Historic Name Communities in Wales: Some Approaches and Considerations by Heather JonesResistant, Diffused, or Peripheral? Northern Personal Names to ca. 1250 by Dave PostlesPart IV: Chronologies and ImpactsThe Domesday Jurors by C. P. LewisNames and Ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England by Stephanie Mooers ChristelowNotes on ContributorsGeneral IndexConspectus of Nomina ("Forenames")