Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.
Mapping the Medieval Countryside
June 18, 2014 By
My summary of a Institute of Historical Research session on the digitization of records in Late Medieval England.
Reconsidering Agatha, Wife of Eadward the Exile
January 11, 2014 By
The antecedents of Agatha, wife of Eadward the Exile and ancestress of Scottish and English monarchs since the twelfth century and their countless descendants in Europe and America, have been the subject of much dispute…
The Birth of Heloise: New Light on an Old Mystery
March 18, 2013 By
So where did she come from, this extraordinary woman and what was the composition of genes that went into her inheritance?
Testimonies of the Living Dead: The Martyrology-Necrology and the Necrology in the Chapter-Book of Mont-Saint-Michel
February 5, 2013 By
On the face of it, a necrological record indicating the day of the year on which a subject died might be nothing more than the point at which to draw the line. In fact, the place, or even places, in which such records occur yields significant information about the subject’s life, rather than his death.
Woden and his Roles in Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogy
November 5, 2012 By
The essay will attempt to determine the origin of the cult of Woden and also to explore the functions, history and patterns of Woden’s inclusion in royal genealogies.
The Baronage in the Reign of Richard II, 1377-1399
September 6, 2012 By
The usurpation of Richard II by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke in 1399 was one of the most significant events in later medieval history.
Placenames and the settlement pattern of dark-age Scotland
June 3, 2012 By
This study will examine some placename evidence for features of settlement in E Scotland, that zone which lies of the Firth of Forth and E of the main Scottish mountain mass. In this areaat least four different languages have been spoken with differing temporal and spatial extents: one non-Indo-European tongue, Celtic, Norse and English.
St Fursa, the genealogy of an Irish saint the historical person and his cult
January 28, 2012 By
As it turns out, Fursa’s differing genealogical affiliations mirror the subsequent shifts in political and ecclesiastical developments in Irish medieval history.
Greeks in Early Medieval Barcelona?
December 18, 2011 By
The aim of this article is to draw attention to a group of persenal names which occurs almost exclusively in the city of Barcelona in tilese decades around the year 1000, which may throw some additional llght on the range of externa1 cgntacts. The name in question is that of Greco.
Eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire: A Study in Byzantine Titulature and Prosopography
December 13, 2011 By
The presence of innumerable eunuchs at the Byzantine court seems to be in conflict with the laws that severely prohibited eunuchism. The Roman emperors early formally prohibited this practice, at least within the boundaries of the empire.
Profiling English Landed Society in 1066
November 4, 2011 By
Professor Lewis details the project, Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066 project, which involves completing a prosopography of landowners from England in 1066
The transformation of kinship and the family in late Anglo-Saxon England
September 17, 2011 By
In this article it is suggested that the emergence of new kinship values was connected to the investment of aristocratic energy and resources in monastic programmes, and to subtle changes in lay involvement with the rituals associated with death and the salvation of souls.
Cultural syncretism and ethnic identity: The Norman ‘conquest’ of Southern Italy and Sicily
September 15, 2011 By
Cultural syncretism and ethnic identity: The Norman ‘conquest’ of Southern Italy and Sicily Drell, Joanna H.(Department of History, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York) Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 25, No. 3,(1999) Abstract The culturally syncretic character of medieval Southern Italy and Sicily was never so apparent as under Norman rule in the twelfth century. From the […]
Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim
September 15, 2011 By
Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim Jackson, Peter (University of Oxford) Prosopon Newsletter (1997) Abstract The name of Ralph de Limésy is well enough known to medieval prosopographers, both as a substantial tenant-in-chief in several counties in post-Conquest England and as the founder (ca 1095) of a Benedictine house at […]
More about Magnus, Count of Wroclaw
September 13, 2011 By
More about Magnus, Count of Wroclaw Skarbek-Kozietulski, Marek Genealogia Mediaevalis Genetica, August 4, (2011) Abstract Twentieth-century German medieval researchers saw Piotr Wlostowic, the famous Palatine of the Polish Duke Wladyslaw II the Exile, as a grandson of Magnus, the Count (Comes) of Wroclaw. They argued this from two sources, the records of Gallus Anonymus’ “Polish […]
What was the true identity of Magnus, Count of Wroclaw?
September 13, 2011 By
What was the true identity of Magnus, Count of Wroclaw? Skarbek-Kozietulski, Marek Genealogia Mediaevalis Genetica (2010) Abstract Which clan of Polish medieval nobility1 derives its male lineage from Count Magnus of Wroclaw? This man of noble birth, who bore a mysteriously non-Slavic name, was mentioned twice in the Chronicle of Gallus Anonymus. This vexed question has […]
Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities: Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain
August 4, 2011 By
Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities: Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain By David Nirenberg Past and Present, No. 174 (2002) Introduction: It is both well known and worthy of note that Sephardim (that is, the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain) and Spaniards shared an unusually heightened concern with lineage and genealogy in the early […]
THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200
July 31, 2011 By
THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 Taylor, Nathaniel Lane PhD Philosopy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April (1995) Abstract Some three thousand men and women of Languedoc and Catalonia (southwestern France and northeastern Spain) from before the year 1200 speak to us through their testaments. This volume of testamentary evidence is unmatched in […]
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 92 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages
June 30, 2011 By
In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo Organizer: Rachel D. Gibson (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) Presider: Rachel D. Gibson Defining a Merchant Identity and Aesthetic in Pisa: Muslim Ceramics as Commodities, Mementos, and Decoration on Eleventh-Century Churches Mathews, Karen (University of Miami) What did the inhabitants of […]
Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009
April 4, 2011 By
Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009 By Gregory Clark Published Online (2010) Abstract: This paper reports on a preliminary investigation of surname distributions as a measure long run social mobility. In England this suggests two surprising claims. First, England, all the way from the heart of the Middle Ages in 1200 […]
Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519)
April 2, 2011 By
The Third Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Student Conference Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519) Alexander Devine (University of Pennsylvania) Alexander catalogues medieval manuscripts in Baltimore, Maryland. This paper dealt with the dispersal of the medieval library during the Dissolution of the 16th century and the transfer of Erasmus’s book from […]
Effigies ad Regem Angliae and the Representation of Kingship in Thirteenth-Century English Royal Culture
March 20, 2011 By
Effigies ad Regem Angliae and the Representation of Kingship in Thirteenth-Century English Royal Culture Collard, Judith eBLJ (2007), Article 9 Abstract In the ‘Treasures of the British Library’ display, in the section devoted to various manuscripts of Magna Carta, are three large reproductions of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English manuscripts. Two reproduce a single image of the […]
A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints
March 16, 2011 By
A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints By Alan J. Koman Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8063-1824-0 Publisher’s Synopsis: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, this book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and […]
THE LOCALISATION AND DATING OF MEDIEVAL ICELANDIC MANUSCRIPTS
February 20, 2011 By
THE LOCALISATION AND DATING OF MEDIEVAL ICELANDIC MANUSCRIPTS Karlsson, Stefan SAGA-BOOK, VOL. XXV, VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, (1998–2001) Abstract As is apparent from the title, the subject of this paper is the localisation and dating of medieval Icelandic manuscripts. In this context I intend to touch on the identification of scribal hands in more than […]
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