Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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Grant Holder:
Professor Dame Janet Nelson
"PASE is a relational database giving access to structured information on all of the recorded inhabitants of Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century. It is intended to serve as a research tool suitable for a wide range of users with an interest in this period: whether academics in various disciplines, or local historians, or students in schools and universities, or those exploring the past for reasons of their own. PASE enables its users to make different kinds of searches, to access information about particular individuals, relationships, and groups, and to move rapidly from the known into the unknown". (See project site for a more full description including a technical essay).
| Project start date: 2005-01 | Project end date: 2008-02 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Text
Source material used:
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to cover all of the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century. It is based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, and coins.
Digital resource created:
"The core of the PASE web publication is a ‘master database’, which identifies Persons who are recorded or referred to in a number of Sources that have been researched. The assertions that Sources make about the Persons are called ‘factoids’ in the project, and they include a variety of personal information, including offices, kinships, and so on, and Events in which they participated in some way. No factoids (including Events) should appear unless they are linked both to Persons and to Sources. This principle is rigorously applied so that users are in a position to follow the Person-to-Source ‘trail’, and to make their own reference to the relevant Source at any stage".
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
MySQL
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Janet Nelson |
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| Author(s) of record | Janet Nelson |
| Title | Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England |
| Record created | 2007-07-05 |
| Record updated | 2011-01-14 15:29 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2108 |
| Citation of record | Janet Nelson: Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2108> created: 2007-07-05, last updated 2011-01-14 15:29 |