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	Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
		Prosopography has been defined as an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.
		As Werner has written elsewhere, prosopography permits the political history of men and 'events' to be combined with the hidden social history of long-term evolutionary processes.
		He says that, in short, prosopographical analysis concerns itself with the person, his environment and his social status, that is, a person within the context of family and other social groups, the place or places in which he was active and the function he performed within his society.
	fmg.ac /FMG/Prosopography.htm (387 words)

	proso.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prosopography, which is collective biography spiced with analysis, is closely associated with the problems of causality and the writing of "scientific" history.
		At the heart of successful prosopography is taking considerable care as to which categories of information are to be gathered, as it will be difficult in the middle or the end of a study to go back and look for information for those that were missed.
		One of the best uses of prosopography is for the study of an elite group such as the members of a legislature or club.
	www.paulrich.net /papers/proso.html (389 words)

	Prosopography - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395 (Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire)
		The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 2 volume set: Volume 3, AD 527-641 (Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire)
		A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetter: By John D. Grainger (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /prosopography.htm (211 words)

	Prosopography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prosopography is an important methodological tool within historical research, its goal being the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period, often in the form of a register or database (frequently also known as a "Prosopography", e.g.
		Radner, K. (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Helsinki, 1998-2002.
		Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England - a project designed to provide a comprehensive biographical register of recorded inhabitants of Anglo-Saxon England (c.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prosopography (123 words)

	PROGRESS OR PERVERSION
		If there is growing confusion and laxity in the use of the word prosopography, and there undoubtedly is, then it is because historians have failed to be clear about what they mean when trying to explain it to others, especially their students.
		Prosopography is the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives.
		Prosopography as ‘group-biography’ is misleading, as it is not the study of life histories in groups (nor indeed the biography of groups) but rather the study of biographical detail about individuals in aggregate.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~prosop/progress-or-perversion.htm (1570 words)

	America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office.
		Prosopography, “the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives” (Stone 1972, p.107), involves a comparative analysis of common data points regarding the subjects under study.
		The result is a somewhat generally good collection of essays, most of which present a balanced assessment of their subject, but a few of which elide topics that might shed negative light on the lawyer-president under consideration.
		Though some of the essays fail to face up to the flaws of their subjects, in general this book is a needed first exploration of the relationship between law practice and the presidency.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/gross305.htm (1156 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		For certain fields of ancient prosopography (e.g., Northwest Semitic epigraphy), prosopographic analyses will also include attempts to argue for (or against) the identification of a person attested in a literary corpus (e.g., the Hebrew Bible) with someone attested in the epigraphic corpus.
		Although certitude is the desideratum in the field of prosopography, it is often difficult to achieve, based on extant data.
		The most reliable prosopographies are those based on a convergence of epigraphic, archaeological, and (when available) literary data.
	sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=649 (3294 words)

	Project Prosopography of Prague University of Law 1372-1419 - Basic terms
		Computers also enable rapid graphic processing, the database can also serve as a dictionary of biography, and, not least, enable immediate answers to be obtained to newly asked questions.
		Prosopography has been used as a method since the 1960's, particularly in research into social elites.
		Jahrhundert, published in 1896, is generally regarded as the pioneering work in the field of university prosopography.
	www.gacr.cz /~borovic/matrika/projekt_en/pojmy/pojmy.htm (2842 words)

	British Academy - Event programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The prosopography of a christianised world presented particular issues, which were resolved by the agreement that Jones' Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire should cover the secular world, working in co-operation with the Prosopographie Chrétienne, directed by H-I. Marrou.
		After the completion of the work on Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, it was agreed to continue the project into the Byzantine period; but by this time it had become clear that such work would use electronic resources in a completely new way.
		The aim is to invite students and scholars to consider the developments in prosopography over the last fifty years, particularly the methodological issues raised, and to assess the contribution made by prosopographical research to the study of the Roman Empire and the medieval world.
	www.britac.ac.uk /events/2000/000929prosog.html (628 words)

	Project Prosopography of Prague University of Law 1372-1419
		I n recent years the field of university history has seen a marked increase in the promotion of prosopographic workings of source material, and in particular university matriculae (registers), in the form of collective biographies of individual generations of students.
		This method allows for new views of questions of social structure, of the frequency and mobility of students of the university and of the social standing of graduates.
		Its aim is to draw together and interpret all of the obtainable data regarding individuals inscribed in the matriculae of the Prague University of Law, one of the completely preserved medieval Prague matriculae of the rectorial type.
	www.gacr.cz /~borovic/matrika/index_en.htm (203 words)

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		O'Donnell, 'Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume III: A.D. 527-641, in two parts', Bryn Mawr Classical Review v4n04 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v4n04-o'donnell-prosopography 4.4.7, Martindale, Prosopography of the LRE 4.4.8, Martindale, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Martindale, J.R. The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume III: A.D. 527-641, in two parts.
		The usefulness of prosopography in the period could be surmised from the works of Otto Seeck, mainly in the fourth century, and isolated collections by J. Sundwall for Ostrogothic Italy and K. Stroheker for Frankish Gaul, but nothing comparable to PLRE had ever been undertaken for the period.
		The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire could then be not a separate work but a logical continuation of the same database, and we need not wait until a period of 100 or 150 years of entries are all complete to begin to have them posted to the existing database.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-v4n04-o'donnell-prosopography.txt (1378 words)

	Prospography & Computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prosopography is a collective or group biography in which the external characteristics of a population with something in common are described.
		It is no coincidence that the rise of Prosopography has gone hand in hand with the breakthrough of the use of computers in historical studies.
		This book is a collection of papers by the first generation of historians and medievalists to use the computer intensively in their research and combining this with historical prosopography.
	www.coronetbooks.com /books/pros4575.htm (152 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.04.07
		The usefulness of prosopography in the period could be surmised from the works of Otto Seeck, mainly in the fourth century, and isolated collections by J. Sundwall for Ostrogothic Italy and K. Stroheker for Frankish Gaul, but nothing comparable to PLRE had ever been undertaken for the period.
		More than a biographical dictionary, it was almost a census report on the aristocracy of the time (and their hangers-on).
		The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire could then be not a separate work but a logical continuation of the same database, and we need not wait until a period of 100 or 150 years of entries are all complete to begin to have them posted to the existing database.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1993/04.04.07.html (1351 words)

	Prosopography Of The Antonines And The Severans , A Problem - Ancient Roman Empire Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Ronald Symes Roman Papers are supposed to be prosopography studies.
		Indeed Syme is the "father" of Roman Imperial prosopography.
		I have read many of his works but, again, he and many others didn't touch Antoninus Pius, Commodus and the last Severans systematicly (that is, in the same level of detail as PLRE for later periods).
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5060 (407 words)

	History Faculty
		Prosopography is an extremely effective auxiliary discipline of social history pioneered by Ancient historians but now widely used by historians of all periods.
		The outcome of the research is a body of information about these groups or networks which goes beyond the sum total of the multiple sources on which it is based to produce a new or metasource.
		Prosopography is therefore especially valuable in fields where there is a paucity of raw data, or where the data are especially difficult to interpret.
	www.history.ox.ac.uk /research/projects/prosop.htm (158 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
		The method used is similar to the scholarly discipline known in the historical profession as “prosopography,” which was defined by one of its creators and best-known practitioners, Lawrence Stone, as “the study of biographical details of individuals in the aggregate.”
		The purpose of this exercise, as Stone explains is “to establish a universe to be studied,” in this case a universe of representative academics who use their academic positions to promote political agendas.
		A further purpose of prosopography is to establish both patterns of conduct and patterns in careers through a study of the assembled profiles.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21249 (2755 words)

	Chrisendom: Guest Post by Richard Bauckham - Ossuaries and Prosopography
		One benefit of the debate over the alleged Jesus family tomb may be that it has got people interested in ossuaries and onomastics (the study of names) who had never thought about them before.
		The article by Christopher Rollston on the SBL Forum (‘Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Palaeographer’) is particularly helpful in relating the debate to the wider issue of identifying people named in epigraphic sources (inscriptions on ossuaries and the like) with people known from the literary sources.
		Prosopography, I could add for the sake of many readers (and to cite a webpage from the University of Oxford) can be defined as `an
	www.christilling.de /blog/2007/03/guest-post-by-richard-bauckham_16.html (703 words)

	Medieval Prosopography 1, 1980-22, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Accession of Baldwin II and the Nobility of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in: Medieval Prosopography 13/1, 1992, p.
		Thomas Pratsch, The 'Prosopographie der Mittelbyzantinischen Zeit' (641/42-1025) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, in: Medieval Prosopography 17/1, 1996, p.
		Arie Schippers, Prosopography of the Almoravid Addressees of Ibn Khafaja's Poems, in: Medieval Prosopography 23, 2003, p.
	www.erlangerhistorikerseite.de /zfhm/medprosopography.html (4046 words)

	Prosopography
		Stone sees a two-fold historical purpose in the use of prosopography: to establish the social roots of political action or to examine and account for social structure and social mobility.
		Prosopography is about what the analysis of the sum of data about many individuals can tell us about the different types of connexion between them, and hence about how they operated within and upon the institutions - social, political, legal, economic, intellectual - of their time.’.
		Nicolet, 'Prosopographie et histoire sociale: Rome et l'Italie à l'époque républicaine', Annales, Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 25 (1970), 1209-28;, in Annuaire de l'École pratique des Hautes Études (1970/1), 297ff.
	www.linacre.ox.ac.uk /prosopo.html (2406 words)

	Going abroad.
		The advantages of such an endeavour, as the participants agreed, are twofold: first, using a common core structure for the storage of their data on academic populations, historians can save a considerable amount of time for actual historical research, instead of reinventing the wheel again and again when creating their own, project related, database structures.
		An opportunity to present these results to historians active in other research fields, and to enrich the work in progress in university history with their experiences, was offered by the fourth edition of the “Only connect.
		Michael Jeffreys (Oxford and London) and Dion Smythe (Belfast) respectively explained the materials of, and demonstrated, the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, a digital version of the books with the same title that have been printed for years.
	www.flwi.ugent.be /fasti/pages/Oxfprosdb.htm (1087 words)

	Texts into databases: The Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the classic print-oriented prosopography, the result is an article that presents both a summary of what can be concluded from these sources about the life of an individual, and an argument that explains why prosopographical scholar believes what s/he does about the individual.
		The PBE I CD allowed access to the persons in the prosopography not only by their names, but by the offices they held, by the religion they professed, by the ethnic community to which they belonged, by the geographic locations they were associated with, and by several other criteria.
		Indeed, it has always been an issue in prosopography where one is not only trying to fit limited, often biased, inaccurate and inconsistent data found in texts into a sets of persons, but also trying to do this for other things such as offices or status titles.
	pigeon.cch.kcl.ac.uk /docs/papers/georgia1 (8028 words)

	Free Exchange on Campus - Proso--what? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		We thought about interviewing "Professor Q" about prosopography but opted for a real professor, William Cutler who is a professor of History at Temple University.
		Prosopography is a technique also known as collective biography.
		It is commonly used by historians delving into ancient periods where there is a dearth of data.
	www.freeexchangeoncampus.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=27 (370 words)

	The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
		Gathering all available data on persons and personal names in the Neo-Assyrian period, The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (PNA) is meant to be a research tool that makes this enormous body of information accessible both to Assyriologists and to scholars in related fields.
		The work of the contributors is coordinated with the linguistic consultants and directed from Helsinki by the Editor-in-Charge of the prosopography project.
		From its inception to the end of June 1999, Karen Radner served as Editor-in-Charge of the prosopography project.
	www.helsinki.fi /science/saa/pna.html (961 words)

	Elites and History
		This seminar is about an approach to history described variously as 'collective biography', 'elite studies', and 'prosopography' (from the Greek word prosopon or 'face').
		Lawrence Stone defines this approach as 'the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives'.
		Bulst, 'Prosopography and the Computer: Problems and Possibilities', in P. Denley, et al., eds., History and Computing II (1989), pp.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /History/postgrad/readlists/elites.htm (456 words)

	Resources
		The November 2000 newsletter announced the imminent appearance of the CD of the 'Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, I (641-867)', a vital reference tool for all serious scholars.
		The project covers a period when the administrative structure and governing elite of Byzantium were undergoing crucial changes, and when the Mediterranean world of Late Antiquity was assuming the forms of the Middle Ages.
		Funded by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Board, this is the continuation into the Byzantine period of PLRE, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, also edited by John Robert Martindale.
	www.byzantium.ac.uk /spbsnews_resources2000.htm (674 words)

	AHDS Case Studies - Continental Origins of English Landholders
		As with other disciplines, advances in computer technology have been able to expand the traditional parameters of the field.
		Because prosopography demands investigating and analysing a large number of documents, scattered around various libraries, it can be an arduous and time-consuming task.
		Prosopography is well suited to the study of the pre-modern period, where a relative paucity of documents, as well as complex naming practices, mean that the precise placement of an historical character within society is often difficult to trace.
	ahds.ac.uk /creating/case-studies/coel (2440 words)

	Names in the 6th/7th Century
		The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE) is a directory, a tool one can use to find primary source material for a given individual who was connected with the Roman Empire between AD 260 and AD 641.
		Those excluded are low office holders, "other" office holders, and ordinary civilians (who number enough to warrant their own prosopography, should someone decide to take up the task).
		Also excluded are those who would be included in the Christian Prosopography, a French project under the direction of H. Marrou.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/byzantine/early_byz_names.html (490 words)

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