The Issue of Mills Localization and Its Names’ Changeability by an Example of Town Mills in Horažďovice Cover Image

K problematice lokalizace mlýnů a proměně jejich názvů na příkladu mlýnů města Horažďovice
The Issue of Mills Localization and Its Names’ Changeability by an Example of Town Mills in Horažďovice

Author(s): Jaroslava Škudrnová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: mills; Horažďovice; names of mills; Otava; Middle Ages; Early Modern Age

Summary/Abstract: The article is attended to an issue of the mill names’ variability in Horažďovice, a small town in southwest of the Czech Republic. It is based on the thorough research of sources and its main goal is to prove how the research of changeable mill names could help to understand the development of milling in the certain area. In fact, the onomastic research could reveal many crucial cultural and social aspects that the conventional way of sources reading would not disclose.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2016
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 208-218
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech
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