Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a major research project based at King's College London
in the Department of History and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse
and Celtic
, University of Cambridge
.
From 2000, PASE has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council
with the intention of recording everything that is known about anyone who lived in Anglo-Saxon England. The PASE online database presents details (which it calls factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1042. It provides specific citations to (and often quotations from) each primary source describing those factoids.
The first phase of the project was launched at the British Academy
on the 27 May 2005 and is freely available on the Internet
at www.pase.ac.uk. Its second phase (PASE2) adds information drawn chiefly from the Domesday Book
to the database.
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
in the Department of History and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse
Norsemen
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...
and Celtic
Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
From 2000, PASE has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Established in April 2005 as successor to the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Arts and Humanities Research Council is a British Research Council and non-departmental public body that provides approximately £102 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the...
with the intention of recording everything that is known about anyone who lived in Anglo-Saxon England. The PASE online database presents details (which it calls factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1042. It provides specific citations to (and often quotations from) each primary source describing those factoids.
The first phase of the project was launched at the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
on the 27 May 2005 and is freely available on the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
at www.pase.ac.uk. Its second phase (PASE2) adds information drawn chiefly from the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
to the database.
PASE team
Directors:- Prof. Dame Janet L. NelsonJanet L. NelsonDame Janet Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA is a British historian. She is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at King's College London....
- Prof. Simon KeynesSimon KeynesSimon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University.-Biography:...
- Dr Harold Short
See also
- Anglo-SaxonsAnglo-SaxonsAnglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...
- History of Anglo-Saxon EnglandHistory of Anglo-Saxon EnglandAnglo-Saxon England refers to the period of the history of that part of Britain, that became known as England, lasting from the end of Roman occupation and establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Norman conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror...
- ProsopographyProsopographyIn historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis...
- Prosopography of the Byzantine WorldProsopography of the Byzantine WorldThe Prosopography of the Byzantine World is a project to create a prosopographical database of individuals named in textual sources in the Byzantine Empire and surrounding areas in the period from 642 to 1265...
External links
- The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge