Description
Book Synopsis"Medieval Prosopography" was founded in 1980 when methodologies of social science were combined with social history in an attempt to explore and explicate the lives of people who, when treated as individuals, often remain obscure. Because relatively few sources were created by or about individuals during the Middle Ages the prosopographical method of analysis of groups of people has lent itself especially well to medieval history.
The aim of this annual journal is to provide a venue for work engaged with the methodology of using data drawn from analysis of a group or relationships between individuals to restore to view the lives of those who would otherwise remain unexamined or to yield new insight into the medieval past. Scholarship taking the approach of collective or group biography also falls under the umbrella of prosopography and would be appropriate for the journal. Over the past four decades, "Medieval Prosopography" has published articles on a range of subjects from all periods and places of medieval history.
The journal welcomes submissions on topics that relate to prosopography from late antiquity to the sixteenth century. Work on all areas and relevant aspects of the medieval world, including Islam and Byzantium, are welcome. Articles in the major European languages are invited and will be published in their original language.
Table of ContentsRoyal
comestabuli and Military Control in the Sicilian Kingdom: A Prosopographical Contribution to the Study of Italo-Norman Aristocracy by Hervin Fernandez-Aceves
The Ancestry and Kinship of Tancred, Prince Regent of Antioch by Francesca Petrizzo
Elisabeth and Eleanor of Vermandois: Succession and Governance in the Counties of Vermandois, Valois, and Amiens by Heather Tanner
The Possible Ties of Lord Baldwin, Called Akarins: An Exploration of Social Rank and the Expansion of Templar Patronage in Thirteenth-Century Reims by Michael Peixoto
The Children of Charles of La Marche and Blanche of Artois and Burgundy by Elizabeth A.R. Brown
In Search of the Mantle and Ring: Prosopographical Study of the Vowess in Late Medieval England by Laura M. Wood
Visualizing Prosopography through Digital Humanities: The Case for Rus' by Christian Raffensperger
Book Reviews
S.T. Ambler,
Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213-1272 by Joel T. Rosenthal
Theodore Evergates,
Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181 by Nicholas L. Paul
Steven Gunn,
Henry VII's New Men & The Making of Tudor England by Gary G. Gibbs
Simon MacLean,
Ottonian Queenship by Laura Wangerin
Steffen Patzold and Carine van Rhijn, eds.,
Men in the Middle: Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe by Laura A. Hohman
Kathryn L. Reyerson,
Mother and Sons, Inc.: Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpelier by Amy Livingstone
Eline van Onacker,
Village Elites and Social Structures in the Late Medieval Campine Region by Jonathan R. Lyon
