Averil Cameron (ed.)

Fifty Years of Prosopography

The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond
Herausgeber: Cameron, Averil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography - 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. The book surveys the transition in prosopographical research from more traditional methods to the new technology, and discusses the central role of the British Academy, as well as that of French, German and Austrian academic institutions, in developing prosopographical research on the Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and now Anglo-Saxon and other periods. The contributions discuss both national histories of the discipline and its potential for future research. The book 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9780197262924
• ISBN-10: 0197262929
• Artikelnr.: 21997897

Autorenporträt

Cameron, Averil (Warden, Keble College, University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy)

Inhaltsangabe

* The Prosopograhy of the Later Roman Empire, Volume l: The Era of
A.H.M. Jones
* The Prosopographia Imperii Romani and Prosopographical Method
* The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE): Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow
* The Contribution of Prosopography: the Byzantium Empire, or Why
Prosopography? A Question of Identity
* Exploring the Jungle: Hagiographical Literature Between Fact and
Fiction
* The Contribution of Papyri to the Prosopography of the Ancient World:
Evaluation and Prospects
* Seals and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
* Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Seventh Century: Prosopographical
Observations on Monotheletism
* Romans and Foreigners
* Official Power and Non-Official Power
* Medieval Prosopography and the Prosopography pf Anglo-Saxon England