Nazewnictwo szlachty w Krzyżakach Henryka Sienkiewicza na tle polskiego systemu antroponimicznego dawnych epok
The nobility terminology in The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the background of Polish system of anthroponymy of the bygone periods

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the procedure of altering Polish last names as it is pictured inexamples of anthroponyms taken from the historical novel The Knights of the Cross written byHenryk Sienkiewicz. Characteristics of onomastics, as the one of many fields of the linguisticstudies and the literary onomastics, which is a part of it, preludes the analysis performed inthis paper. The emphasis has been put on one of the areas of this study – anthroponymy. Accordingto this discipline, it was possible to investigate Polish surnames and depict the historyof their advancement and modifications throughout centuries, basing on the mentioned novel.Author used the literary realism in the historical novel – genre recognizable for positivism andgenuinely showed the process of transformations and modifications in Polish names, whichwas held within social groups like nobility, the middle class, peasantry and clergy. This thesisshows how did the author assort each personal name and directs to sources, that could haveinspired him to create his characters and name them accordingly to the proper period andparticular social group.

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