Prosopography: Approaches and Applications. A Handbook

Contents

 Abstracts                      xi-xv

Introduction

 Chameleon or Chimera? Understanding Prosopography , K.S.B. Keats-Rohan   1-32

 Part I Prosopography overview

1: The Nature of Prosopography

1.      A Short Manual to the Art of Prosopography ,  Koenraad Verboven – Myriam Carlier – Jan Dumolyn  35-69

2:  Origins of Prosopography

2.      Prosopography Modern and Ancient , T. D. Barnes,  71-82

3.      Prosopography and Roman History , T. D. Barnes  83-93

3: Planning a Prosopography: Possibilities and Problems

4.      Where are all the PDBs?: The Creation of Prosopographical Databases for the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Ralph W. Mathisen   95-126

5.      A Whiter Shade of Pale : Issues and Opportunities in Prosopography , Dion C. Smythe 127-37

6.      Biography, Identity and Names, K. S. B. Keats-Rohan 139-181

7.      Should one include unnamed people in a prosopography? , David E. Pelteret 183-96

8.      The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England:Facts and Factoids , Francesca Tinti  197-209

9.      Towards A Mixed Method Social History: combining quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of collective biography , Gidon Cohen, Andrew Flinn and Kevin Morgan 211-29

4: Prosopographical and Allied Projects

10.  The Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) and New Trends and Projects in Roman Prosopography , Marietta Horster  231-40

11.  Who is Who in the Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit? Problems of Identification in the Middle Byzantine Period , Claudia Ludwig,  241-51

12.  The Prosopography of the Prague University of Laws, Bořek Neškudla 253-74

13.  Counting the Clergy: the CCEd and the Limitations of a Prosopographical Tool , Arthur Burns, Kenneth Fincham, and Stephen Taylor   275-89

14.  The Repertory of Office-holders and Public Servants in the Netherlands 1428-1861. A non-prosopographic database with prosopographic potential, Ronald Sluijter

Part II Employing the Prosopographical Method: Case Studies

A.     Greece and Rome

15.  The Sociology of Athenian Democracy: A Prosopographical approach, Claire Taylor 313-24

16.  Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Prosopography,  Shawn Graham and Giovanni Ruffini 325-336

B. European Middle Ages

17.  Prosopography and Onomastics: the Case of the Goths, Luis A. Garcia Moreno 337-50

18.  Population Selection:  English Landholders in Ireland and their Attorneys, c.1270-c.1360  , Beth Hartland   351-59

C. Indigenous Peoples

19.  Prosopographical Approaches in Canadian Native History, Heather Devine  361-86

D. Islam

20.  Asad Ahmed ,  Prosopography and the Reconstruction of Hijazi History for the Early Islamic Period:  The Case of the Awfid Family  415-58

21.  Arabic Islamic Prosopography: The Tabaqat Genre , R. Kevin Jaques  387-413

22.  To Basmalah or not to Basmalah: Geography and Isnad in Early Islamic Legal Traditions , Najam Haider  459-98

E. Modern Western Europe

23.  Enjoyned by the Laws of this Assembly: The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and the Prosopographical Approach, Michael Stuckey    499-525

24.  Prosopography and the Providence Island Company: The Nature of Puritan Opposition in 1630s England, Jared Van Duinen  527-39

25.  The Crown’s Judges – The Judicial Profession in Ancien Regime Portugal, 1700-1709 , Nuno Camarinhas 541-54

26.  George Stephenson and Nineteenth-Century Engineering Networks, Carolyn Dougherty 555-65

27.  French Composers between the Franco-Prussian (1870-1) and the Japanese-Russian (1904-5) Wars: A Prosopographical Study,  Karlijn Deene   567-78

28.  Literary Strategy during Flanders’s Golden Decades (1880-1914): Combining Social Network Analysis And Prosopography , Christophe Verbruggen  579-601

Bibliography 603-21

List of Contributors 623-26

Index