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Books of the month from Kemps bookstore in Malton

Kemps Book store in Malton give their new year round up of the best books to read in January.

Caitlin Green: Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England

Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, Macamathehou, that involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad (Middle English Makomet/Macamethe, Old French Mahomet). Whilst it has been plausibly seen as an instance of a variant of the name of Muhammed being used to mean heathen , pagan idol or similar (based on the false but common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god), here in reference to a barrow that was considered to be a pre-Christian site, it is worth noting that there are a small number of people with names and surnames derived from Arabic