Editorial Reviews
Review
Medieval genealog(ists) will find that this work provides valuable insight into the sources available, as well as into some of the pitfalls to be encountered in their use. AMERICAN GENEALOGIST The papers are of high quality and of significance to others in their fields. ALBION The fact that the editor is KSBKR suggests (these studies) will be both unorthodox and brilliant... (she) has used her considerable skills at diplomatics and textual criticism to question the perceived Norman cultural and administrative dominance in post-Conquest England... the essays ar all meticulously crafted models of prosopographical research. MEDIEVAL PROSOPOGRAPHY A thought-provoking collection which deserves to be widely read. FRENCH HISTORY
Book Description
In recent decades historians have become increasingly aware of the value of prosopography as an auxiliary science standing at the crossroads between anthropology, genealogy, demography and social history. It is now developing as an independent research discipline of real benefit to medievalists. The geographically and chronologically wide-ranging subjects of the essays in this collection, by scholars from the British Isles and the Continent, are united by a common theme, namely the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in determining political events in the middle ages. The papers, including a review of the history of prosopography and some of its major successes as a method by Karl Ferdinand Werner, range from general considerations of prosopographical and genealogical methodology (including discussion of Anglo-Norman royal charters) to specific analyses of individual political and kinship groups (including the genealogy of the counts of Anjou and a rehabilitation of the prosopographical material in Wace's Roman de Rou). The main geographic focus is England and France from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, but other areas as diverse as Celtic Ireland and the Latin Principality of Antioch also come under prosopographical scrutiny. Contributors: DAVID E. THORNTON, ANNE WILLIAMS, C.P. LEWIS, DAVID BATES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA COWNIE, JUDITH GREEN, JOHN S. MOORE, K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN, CHRISTIAN SETTIPANI, HUBERT GUILLOTEL, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, MICHEL BUR, ALAN V. MURRAY, DANIEL POWER.
Family Trees and the Roots of Politics : The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century
Family Trees and the Roots of Politics: The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century,K.S.B. Keats-Rohan,Boydell Press,0851156258,1066-1485,449-1066,Europe - Great Britain - General,France,Genealogy,Great Britain,Historiography,History - General History,History: World,Kinship,Medieval,Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450),Political aspects,Politics and government,Prosopography,Ancient World,British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500,British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000,England,Europe,European history: c 500 to c 1500,Family history,History / Medieval,Ireland,Rank & titles,World history,World history: BCE to c 500 CE,c 1000 CE to c 1500,c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
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