"Between prosopography and historiography: the intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) "
(Stefano Carlo Sala)
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#prosopography #historiography
(Stefano Carlo Sala)
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#prosopography #historiography
Between prosopography and historiography: The intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC)
(2025). Between prosopography and historiography: The intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) . Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/305028
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December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Between prosopography and historiography: the intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) "
(Stefano Carlo Sala)
Download #OpenAccess conference contribution🔗 doi.org/10.62336/uni...
#prosopography #historiography
(Stefano Carlo Sala)
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#prosopography #historiography
Prosopography might genuinely be a method that can come back and be turned into something useful.
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Prosopography might genuinely be a method that can come back and be turned into something useful.
What about prosopography? What about using python to extract patterns from vast datasets? What about archival sources that are dominated by spreadsheets, as mine often are?
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What about prosopography? What about using python to extract patterns from vast datasets? What about archival sources that are dominated by spreadsheets, as mine often are?
Our PI @tla.bsky.social and George Bruseker (TAKIN.solutions) presented PWRo, a reusable ontology developed for the RELEVEN database to model power, authority and social relations in historical prosopography, at the 2nd Prosopon Workshop in Munich last week.
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Our PI @tla.bsky.social and George Bruseker (TAKIN.solutions) presented PWRo, a reusable ontology developed for the RELEVEN database to model power, authority and social relations in historical prosopography, at the 2nd Prosopon Workshop in Munich last week.
So pleased this is finally out: "Social Network Analysis", with my favourite writing buddy, the incomparable Máirín MacCarron, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography. We hope it will be useful, also for teaching!
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
brill.com/display/titl...
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
brill.com/display/titl...
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So pleased this is finally out: "Social Network Analysis", with my favourite writing buddy, the incomparable Máirín MacCarron, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography. We hope it will be useful, also for teaching!
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
brill.com/display/titl...
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
brill.com/display/titl...
#OTD 1 yr ago
"Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD" by So Miyagawa, Contributor for #African Studies.
Here, So guides you to the use of the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) database
digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/03/d...
"Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD" by So Miyagawa, Contributor for #African Studies.
Here, So guides you to the use of the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) database
digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/03/d...
Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled “LOD wo Kushi shita Kodai Ejiputo-shi no Digital Prosopography:…
digitalorientalist.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#OTD 1 yr ago
"Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD" by So Miyagawa, Contributor for #African Studies.
Here, So guides you to the use of the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) database
digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/03/d...
"Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD" by So Miyagawa, Contributor for #African Studies.
Here, So guides you to the use of the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) database
digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/03/d...
There's some line at which the sources no longer support prosopography - the assumptions you have to use to link the records count for more than the records themselves. I wasn't comfortable that I crossed that line. The later sources are so much better.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There's some line at which the sources no longer support prosopography - the assumptions you have to use to link the records count for more than the records themselves. I wasn't comfortable that I crossed that line. The later sources are so much better.
After reflecting on what you said, I think there is some merit in using rigorously separated terms within given contexts. I used method in the sense b at Merriam-Webster’s (the Handbook of Prosopography did, too), you’d limit it to sense a1. (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...) 1/5
Definition of METHOD
a procedure or process for attaining an object: such as; a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry employed by or proper to a particular discipline or art; a systematic plan followed in pr...
www.merriam-webster.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
After reflecting on what you said, I think there is some merit in using rigorously separated terms within given contexts. I used method in the sense b at Merriam-Webster’s (the Handbook of Prosopography did, too), you’d limit it to sense a1. (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...) 1/5
Calling the #LinkedPasts, @pelagios.bsky.social, #prosopography and @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for #Wikidata next week (intro Monday, working session Thursday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Linked Pasts 11 programme – Linked Pasts Symposium
linkedpasts.hcommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Calling the #LinkedPasts, @pelagios.bsky.social, #prosopography and @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for #Wikidata next week (intro Monday, working session Thursday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Calling the #AncientSky, #Prosopography and #TEIFriday crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for TEI XML next week (general intro on Monday, working session on Wednesday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Linked Pasts 11 programme – Linked Pasts Symposium
linkedpasts.hcommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Calling the #AncientSky, #Prosopography and #TEIFriday crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for TEI XML next week (general intro on Monday, working session on Wednesday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
I've been thinking about prosopography. Because why not dip I to Lewis Namier and Charles Beard of an evening?
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social do you think a collective biography approach to British Intel has legs?
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social do you think a collective biography approach to British Intel has legs?
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I've been thinking about prosopography. Because why not dip I to Lewis Namier and Charles Beard of an evening?
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social do you think a collective biography approach to British Intel has legs?
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social do you think a collective biography approach to British Intel has legs?
Difficult to say. Considering that people use method for prosopography, too, despite that also being without fixed steps, because it's dependent on the population, sources, etc., what one ultimately does.
Seems very much synonymous with"approach" in these cases?
Seems very much synonymous with"approach" in these cases?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Difficult to say. Considering that people use method for prosopography, too, despite that also being without fixed steps, because it's dependent on the population, sources, etc., what one ultimately does.
Seems very much synonymous with"approach" in these cases?
Seems very much synonymous with"approach" in these cases?
Uh and a third one for the way:
Your article covers the period roughly from 1453 to the last galley of the Ottoman navy, what were the main evolutions?
(btw I was surprised not to see Noel Malcolm's book mentionned as it is basically a prosopography of a handful of galley slaves)
Your article covers the period roughly from 1453 to the last galley of the Ottoman navy, what were the main evolutions?
(btw I was surprised not to see Noel Malcolm's book mentionned as it is basically a prosopography of a handful of galley slaves)
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Uh and a third one for the way:
Your article covers the period roughly from 1453 to the last galley of the Ottoman navy, what were the main evolutions?
(btw I was surprised not to see Noel Malcolm's book mentionned as it is basically a prosopography of a handful of galley slaves)
Your article covers the period roughly from 1453 to the last galley of the Ottoman navy, what were the main evolutions?
(btw I was surprised not to see Noel Malcolm's book mentionned as it is basically a prosopography of a handful of galley slaves)
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers:
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
www.history.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers:
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
The Berlin colophon of the binding fragment is a significant addition to the prosopography of medieval German scribes. It would be great if someone (different from me) could identify the original text of the MS and find out the year in which it was copied! #medievalsky
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The Berlin colophon of the binding fragment is a significant addition to the prosopography of medieval German scribes. It would be great if someone (different from me) could identify the original text of the MS and find out the year in which it was copied! #medievalsky
This approach relies on prosopography, archival studies, and intensive, wide reading of material from bureaucratic receipts and school texts to prayers, promulgations, and statues.
It is slow, hard work that he believed computers could help this process immensely. It has!
It is slow, hard work that he believed computers could help this process immensely. It has!
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This approach relies on prosopography, archival studies, and intensive, wide reading of material from bureaucratic receipts and school texts to prayers, promulgations, and statues.
It is slow, hard work that he believed computers could help this process immensely. It has!
It is slow, hard work that he believed computers could help this process immensely. It has!
Love finding those little treasures! The posthumous prosopography of a scholar's books should be a study in itself.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Love finding those little treasures! The posthumous prosopography of a scholar's books should be a study in itself.
#BOTD: Sun Kuo-tung 孫國棟 (1922–2013), historian of #MedievalChina (Tang-Song 唐宋), medieval Chinese #InstitutionalHistory, aristocracy, and #prosopography. #MedievalHistory
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#BOTD: Sun Kuo-tung 孫國棟 (1922–2013), historian of #MedievalChina (Tang-Song 唐宋), medieval Chinese #InstitutionalHistory, aristocracy, and #prosopography. #MedievalHistory
🚀 Jaina Prosopography Database
Jaina Prosopography Database
[AI Summary]: The Jaina Prosopography Database is a comprehensive research tool for studying historical information on Jaina mendicants and householders, created for sociological investigation of...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚀 Jaina Prosopography Database
Today is also the feast of The Two Hewalds, Hewald the Black and Hewald the White, Angles who died in the 690s trying to convert the Old Saxons. Thank goodness for PASE, pase.ac.uk, the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. Here's their entry in Bede's Martyrology in Escorial MS L.III.8., 9th c.
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today is also the feast of The Two Hewalds, Hewald the Black and Hewald the White, Angles who died in the 690s trying to convert the Old Saxons. Thank goodness for PASE, pase.ac.uk, the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. Here's their entry in Bede's Martyrology in Escorial MS L.III.8., 9th c.
Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
Today’s word is “prosopography”:
“the description of the form or personal appearance of an individual/an instance of this.”
The historian Ronald Syme focused on the study of societal groups (like knights or bishops) about whom one knows little individually but much is gleaned when taken together.
“the description of the form or personal appearance of an individual/an instance of this.”
The historian Ronald Syme focused on the study of societal groups (like knights or bishops) about whom one knows little individually but much is gleaned when taken together.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today’s word is “prosopography”:
“the description of the form or personal appearance of an individual/an instance of this.”
The historian Ronald Syme focused on the study of societal groups (like knights or bishops) about whom one knows little individually but much is gleaned when taken together.
“the description of the form or personal appearance of an individual/an instance of this.”
The historian Ronald Syme focused on the study of societal groups (like knights or bishops) about whom one knows little individually but much is gleaned when taken together.