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The seminar is organised by the Prosopography Centre at Oxford (UK). The Centre is dedicated to the study and promotion, and, where necessary, development, of the disciplines and methods of medieval prosopography. The Centre was established at the Research Unit of the Faculty of Modern History (University of Oxford) with view of creating a comprehensive review of the development of prosopography to date and a range of teaching programmes for graduates.
October 14: Professor Timothy Barnes (Toronto), Prosopography: the origin of the method and its application to Roman history
October 21: Professor Véronique Gazeau (Caen), The making of the (or "a") prosopography of Norman abbots: methods and results
This seminar will start at the later time of 5.15pm, preceded at 4.15 by a Reception to launch a consultative project entitled ‘The development and practice of prosopography in historical research: a review looking from the past and the present to the future’, led by Katharine Keats-Rohan
October 28: Prof Laurence Brockliss, Army and navy surgeons of the French Wars 1793-1815
November 4: Professor Michael Jeffreys, Adding chalk to cheese: multicultural and multidisciplinary prosopography
November 11: Dr Paul Seaward (History of Parliament), The History of Parliament project
November 18: Dr Francesca Tinti, Sources, People and Events: Deconstructing the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database
November 25: Dr Margaret Pelling, Medical men and Public Office: A Preliminary Prosopographical Investigation
December 2: Dr Stephen Taylor, Counting the clergy: the CCED and the limitations of a prosopographical tool
Thursdays, 2.15pm
Seminar Room, Modern History Research Unit, Block 11 2, Radcliffe Infirmary,Oxford OX2 6HE
Convenor Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan
All welcome to all seminars and to the Reception at 4.15 on October 21. A map of how to find the MHRU is available at www.history.ox.ac.uk/researchunit.htm
For further information, please contact the Prosopography Centre
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