Fifty Years of Prosopography

The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond

Edited by Averil Cameron

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

The first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography

Fifty Years of Prosopography

The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond

Edited by Averil Cameron

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Prosopography is the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent of computer technology it is now possible to gather and store such information in increasingly sophisticated and searchable databases, which can bring a new dimension to traditional historical research. This book surveys the transition in prosopographical research and demonstrates mutual benefits and complementarity in such studies between the use of new technology and the highest standards of traditional scholarship, and in doing so it sets forth new perspectives and methodologies for future work.

Fifty Years of Prosopography

The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond

Edited by Averil Cameron

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

The Prosopograhy of the Later Roman Empire, Volume l: The Era of A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale
The Prosopographia Imperii Romani and Prosopographical Method, Werner Eck
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Ralph Mathisen
The Contribution of Prosopography: the Byzantium Empire, or Why Prosopography? A Question of Identity, Paul Magdalino
Exploring the Jungle: Hagiographical Literature Between Fact and Fiction, Thomas Pratsch
The Contribution of Papyri to the Prosopography of the Ancient World: Evaluation and Prospects, Jean-Michael Carrié
Seals and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, Werner Seibt
Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Seventh Century: Prosopographical Observations on Monotheletism, Wolfram Brandes
Romans and Foreigners, Evangelos Chrysos
Official Power and Non-Official Power, Jean-Claude Cheynet
Medieval Prosopography and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, Janet J. Nelson, David A.E. Pelteret, Harold Short

Fifty Years of Prosopography

The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond

Edited by Averil Cameron

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Contributors:

J.R. Martindale, co-Editor of PLRE I and Editor of PLRE II and III and the CD-ROM of PBE I
Werner Eck, Professor in the Institut für Altertumskunde, Alte Geschichte, University of Cologne
Ralph Mathisen, Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities, University of South Carolina, and Director, Biographical Database of Late Antiquity Project
Paul Magdalino, Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews
Thomas Pratsch, member of the team of Byzantinists working on PmbZ
Jean-Michel Carrié, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études, Sciences Sociales, Centre Louis Gernet, Paris
Werner Seibt, Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna
Wolfram Brandes, Byzantine historian at the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M.
Evangelos Chrysos, Director of the Institute for Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, and Professor in the University of Athens
Jean-Claude Cheynet, Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne
Janet Nelson, Professor of History at King's College London, and co-director of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
David Pelteret is Senior Research Fellow working on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxond England
Harold Short is Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London
Averil Cameron is Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and chairs the committee of PBE