IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1505: Medieval Prosopography, I: Professions and Offices in Medieval Europe
Thursday 7 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Medieval Prosopography |
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| Organiser: | Jonathan Lyon, Department of History, University of Chicago, Illinois |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1505-a | Chasing Wild Geese? Prosopography in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 1505-b | Help Wanted: Who Was Qualified to Hold the Office of Church Advocate in Medieval Germany? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1505-b | Catholic Missionaries in the Christianisation of Livonia: A Prosopographical Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography |
| Abstract | A series of recent books and articles demonstrates that prosopography is enjoying something of a 'renaissance', thanks to new research into networks, family ties, collective biography and technology-driven prosopographical analysis. This session, sponsored by the journal Medieval Prosopography, will highlight some of this recent research, as well as fostering dialogue between scholars working in different times and places. The focus of this session will be collective biography and network analysis in the early and central Middle Ages, especially as they relate to different professions and lordly officeholders. |