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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000
From: Bente Opheim <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Prosopography workshop 18 dec. Oxford, UK
Resourcing Sources III
A Workshop for Historians and Computers
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AND STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCH IN
PROSOPOGRAPHY
Data Workshop, Centre for Humanities Computing, 13
Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN
(http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/).
One day event, 10.30-4.30, Monday 18 December 2000,
Lecture Room A, supported by the History Data Service
at Essex University and Humanities Computing Unit at
Oxford University.
Resourcing Sources III: Third in a series of
workshops for researchers in all periods interested in
developing computerized methodologies for handling
source material, whether literary or artefact, or
publishing complex datasets.
Beginners and experts are equally welcome.
Participants are invited to bring examples of their
own material for use in the two General Discussion
sessions.
Provisional Programme:
* The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE),
Dion Smythe (King's College, London)
* The Prospography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE),
David Pelteret (King's College, London)
* Expanding horizons: medieval prosopography and the
COEL Database System, Katharine Keats-Rohan (Linacre
College, Oxford)
* General Discussion
* Prospography and the Study of Charters:
Examples from French
Marriage Contracts, Laura Napran (Pembroke College,
Cambridge)
* Recreating the world of the sagas - perspectives on
computer analysis of medieval narrative texts, Bente
Opheim (Bergen University Norway)
* Cathedral Almsmen, a new prosopographical project,
Alannah Tomkins (Keele)
* General Discussion
The event is free of charge. Intending participants
should register by sending an e-mail to
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travel/tourist information contact Katharine
Keats-Rohan or telephone the Oxford Tourist
Information centre on (0)1865 726871
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