Publication and Events

Since its first year of funding the PASE Project’s methodology and results have been presented and discussed at many seminars, conferences and workshops that the PASE team have either organized or participated in. Members of the Project have also published several articles on both historical and computational aspects of the PASE database.

Publications

In the course of the first phase of the PASE Project, the members of the Project team have published various books and articles in printed format and on the web to illustrate PASE’s aims, methodology and first results. Now that the database is publicly available on-line, further essays will follow demonstrating possible ways in which PASE can help enhancing different aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Stephen Baxter

• The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007)
• ‘Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question’, in Edward the Confessor: The Man and The Legend, ed. R. Mortimer (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2009), pp. 77−118
• ‘Lordship and Justice in the Early English Kingdom: the Judicial Functions of Soke and Commendation Revisited’, in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter, Catherine Karkov, Janet L. Nelson and David Pelteret, Studies in Early Medieval Britain, general editor Nicholas Brooks (Ashgate: Farnham, 2009), pp. 383−419
• ‘Prosopography and Politics in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Death of Burgheard son of Ælfgar and its Context’, in Frankland: The Franks and the World of Early Medieval Europe. Essays in Honour of Dame Jinty Nelson, ed. P. Fouracre and D. Ganz (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2008), pp. 266−84

John Bradley and Harold Short

• ‘Texts into databases: the Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography’, Literary and Linguistic Computing 20 Suppl. 1 (2005) 3-24

Alex Burghart

• Review of I. Walker, Mercia and the Making of England, in Early Medieval Europe 11.3 (2003)
• Review of M.P. Brown and C.A. Farr, Mercia: an early medieval kingdom in Europe, in EME 11.3 (2003)
• ‘Web Works’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 October, 2006
• ‘An Introduction to the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, Literature Compass: http://www.literature-compass.com/images/store/LICO/viewpoints/376.pdf

Jinty Nelson

• (with D. Pelteret and H. Short), ‘Medieval Prosopographies and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, in Fifty Years of Prosopography. The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond, ed. A. Cameron (Oxford, 2003), pp. 155-67, at 155-9
• (with F. Tinti), ‘The Aims and Objects of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: 1066 and All That?’, in Name und Gesellschaft im Frühmittelalter. Personennamen als Indikatoren für sprachliche, ethnische, soziale und kulturelle Gruppenzugehörigkeiten ihrer Träger, Deutsche Namenforschung auf sprachgeschichtlicher Grundlage 2, eds D. Geuenich and I. Runge (Hildesheim, Zurich and New York, 2006), pp. 241-58: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/journals/prosopog.htm
• 'The first use of the second Anglo-Saxon ordo’, in Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters. Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, ed. J. Barrow and A. Wareham (Aldershot, 2008) pp. 117-26.
• ‘Henry Loyn and the context of Anglo-Saxon England’, The Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture for 2006, Haskins Society Journal 19 for 2007 (2008), pp. 154-70
• ‘West Francia and Wessex in the ninth century compared’, in Der Frühmittelalterliche Staat – Europäische Perspektiven, ed. W. Pohl and V. Wieser (Vienna, 2009), pp. 99-112
• ‘England and the Continent in the eighth century’, in Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947) – Ein jüdisches Forscherleben zwischen wissenschaftlicher Anerkennung und politischem Exil, ed. M. Becher and Y. Hen (Bonner Historische Forschungen 63), (Siegburg 2010), pp. 113-21

David Pelteret

• ‘Unity in Diversity; prosopographies and their relationship with other databases’, History and Computing 12 (2000), pp. 13-22, [Abstract on pp. 121-2] http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/journals/prosopog.html
• ‘The Challenges of Constructing the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database’, Medieval Prosopography 22 (2001), pp. 117-25
• (with J.L. Nelson and H. Short), ‘Medieval Prosopographies and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, in Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond, ed. A. M. Cameron (Oxford, 2003), pp. 155-67, at 159-62
• ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, Old English Newsletter 37.1 (2004), pp. 24-5
• ‘An Anonymous Historian of Edward the Elder’s Reign’, in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter, Catherine E. Karkov, Janet L. Nelson and David Pelteret, Studies in Early Medieval Britain (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 319-36
• ‘Should One Include Unnamed Persons in a Prosopographical Study?’, in Prosopography: Approaches and Applications: A Handbook, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Prosopographica et Genealogica 13 (Oxford: Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2007), pp. 183-96
• ‘A Cross and an Acrostic: Boniface’s Prefatory Poem to his Ars Grammatica’, in The Cross in Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer (University of West Virginia Press, forthcoming)
• ‘Anglo-Saxons and Italy in the Early Middle Ages’, in Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent, ed. Hans Sauer, Joanna Story and Gaby Waxenberger (Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming)

Francesca Tinti

• ‘The Anonymous Life of St. Cuthbert and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database: An Exercise in Data Capturing’, Medieval Prosopography, 22 (2001), pp. 127-40
• (with J. L. Nelson), ‘The Aims and Objects of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: 1066 and All That?’, in Name und Gesellschaft im Frühmittelalter. Personennamen als Indikatoren für sprachliche, ethnische, soziale und kulturelle Gruppenzugehörigkeiten ihrer Träger, Deutsche Namenforschung auf sprachgeschichtlicher Grundlage 2, eds D. Geuenich and I. Runge (Hildesheim, Zurich and New York, 2006), pp. 241-58: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/journals/prosopog.html
• ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Facts and Factoids’, in Prosopography: Approaches and Applications. A Handbook, edited by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Prosopographica et Genealogica 13 (Oxford, 2007), pp. 197−209
• ‘Books and learning in the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England database’, in The Limits of Learning. Storehouses of Wholesome Learning III, edited by C. Giliberto and L. Teresi (Leuven, forthcoming)
• ‘Conference report. Medium-evo. Gli studi medievali e il mutamento digitale. First national workshop on medieval studies and the culture of IT, Florence, 21-22 June 2001’, Journal of the Association for History and Computing 4.3 (November 2001)

Papers and Presentations

In the course of the first phase of the project, PASE research officers presented PASE-related papers at conferences at the British Academy (2000), the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, U of Nottingham (2000), the Centre for Humanities Computing, U of Oxford (2000), the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2001), the Leeds International Medieval Conference (2001), the Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, U of Helsinki (2001), the Meeting of Fontes Anglo-Saxonici, King’s College London (2001), the Early Monastic Archives project, UCL (2002), the Leeds IMC (2002), the Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, U of Edinburgh (2002), the Wulfstan Conference, U of York (2002), the seminar of the Durham Liber Vitae project, U of Durham (2003), the Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, U of Arizona (2003), the ICM at Kalamazoo (2004), the Leeds IMC (2004), the Conference of the Name und Gesellschaft project, Mühlheim an der Ruhr (2004), as well as at a number of seminars and workshops.

The following papers have been delivered at international conferences and seminars attended by various members of the PASE team in order to present the rationale of the Project’s methodology and its potential for future research.

British Academy Colloquium (London) 29-30 September 2000 ‘Medieval Prosopographies and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, Janet L. Nelson, David A. E. Pelteret, Harold Short

36th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan) 5 May 2001 ‘The Challenges of Constructing the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database’, David A. E. Pelteret ‘Capturing Data from Eighth-Century Sources: Some Examples from PASE Work on St Cuthbert’, Francesca Tinti Longer versions of these two papers were published in Medieval Prosopography 22 (2001)

International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) 12 July 2001 ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database’, David A. E. Pelteret, ‘Sources, People and Events: Recording Prosopographical Information from Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum’, Francesca Tinti

Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (University of Helsinki) 9 August 2001 ‘An Introduction to Some Less Famous People from Early Anglo-Saxon England’, David A. E. Pelteret, ‘Sources, People and Events: Recording Prosopographical Information from Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum’, Francesca Tinti, The Office Table, The Source Master Table, The Kinship Table, The Event Table

Graduate Seminar, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (University of Cambridge) 13 February 2002 ‘The PASE Project and the Student of Anglo-Saxon England: Past, Present and Future’, Francesca Tinti

Workshop organized by the English Monastic Archives: Access and Analysis Project (University College London) 19 April 2002 ‘An Introduction to the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Project’, David A. E. Pelteret

Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference 2002 (University of Edinburgh) 9 September 2002 ‘Describing Events in Database Terms: An English Charter of AD 804’, David A. E. Pelteret and Alex Burghart ‘Technical methods, digital scholarship and the global digital library’, John Bradley and Harold Short Workshop organized by the English Monastic Archives: Access and Analysis Project (University College London)

Early Medieval Seminar of the Durham Liber Vitae (Grey College, Durham) 23 March 2003 ‘Patterns, Pronunciations and Picts’, David A. E. Pelteret, ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Project and the Liber Vitae of Durham’, Francesca Tinti

ACH/ALLC Conference 2003 (Athens, Georgia) 2 June 2003 ‘Texts into Databases: The Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography’ , John Bradley and Harold Short

Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists(Scottsdale, Arizona) 7 August 2003 ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: A Progress Report’, David A. E. Pelteret

39th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan) 8 May 2004 ‘The Evidence of Charters: Mercia and the South-East in the Ninth Century’, Alex Burghart ‘The Unnamed of Anglo-Saxon England’, David Pelteret, ‘Anglo-Saxons from a Continental Perspective’, Francesca Tinti

International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) 12 July 2004 ‘Starting to use the PASE database’, Francesca Tinti ‘Anglo-Saxon Royal Families in the Seventh Century’, Alex Burghart ‘The Ealdormen of Alfred’s Reign’, David A. E. Pelteret

‘Name und Gesellschaft im Frühmittelalter’ International Colloquium (Mülheim an der Ruhr) 25 September 2004 ‘Sources, People and Events: Deconstructing the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database’, Francesca Tinti

Approaches in Prosopography Seminar, Modern History Research Unit (Oxford University) 18 November 2004 ‘1066 and all that? Anglo-Saxon identity before and after 1066’, Janet L. Nelson and Francesca Tinti

ACH/ALLC Conference 2005 (Victoria, BC, Canada) 15-18 June, 2005 'Databases and Prosopographies: The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) a Case Study', Haved Walda and Alex Burghart

ESF Exploratory Workshop on Prosopography, University of Uppsala 10 May, 2007 ‘The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Phases 1 and 2’, Francesca Tinti and Stephen Baxter 'Plausible Tales: Structure, interpretation and narrative in new prosopography', Harold Short and John Bradley

Workshop on the PROPEL Project, University of Leiden 14 May, 2007 'Structured Prosopography: CCH principles and experiences', by John Bradley

Staat und Staatlichkeit im Europäischen Frühmittelalter (500−1050), University of Vienna, 19−22 September, 2007 ‘Limits and Resistance: The End of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom’

Leverhulme Workshop on Medieval Arabic Prosopography, King’s College, London 10 October 2008 ‘Domesday Book and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’, Stephen Baxter

Project Events

This section provides links to events organized by the PASE Project to present, discuss and get feedback on the methodology employed for data-collection and its outcome.

Workshops

The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England is one of several AHRB/C-funded prosopographical projects based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London). Many aspects of the methodology used in PASE are also employed by the Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW) and the Clergy of the Church of England (CCE) Projects. All three projects have greatly benefited from the exchange of ideas and the discussion of shared problems which have taken place on various formal and informal occasions.

PASE-PBE combined workshop

14 July 2003

The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England and the Prosopography of the Byzantine World organized a combined workshop on 14 July 2003 at King’s College London. On this occasion members of both project teams delivered papers which formed the basis of the discussions that followed.

The PASE team offered the following presentations on issues concerning prosopographical data-entry and the final users’ database:

• ‘Categorising Status, Occupation and Office’, Alex Burghart
• ‘The Versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Data-entry Issues’, David A. E. Pelteret
• ‘The PASE project from data-entry to the master database’, Francesca Tinti

Colloquia

Between 2002 and 2004 the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Project organized annual colloquia to which many experts in Anglo-Saxon studies were invited. The purpose of these meetings was to present and discuss some of the main issues emerging from the data-capturing exercise and the development of the PASE database.

First PASE Colloquium, King’s College London

27 April 2002

Invited guests: Martin Allen, Katy Cubitt, Sarah Foot, Jane Hawkes, Carole Hough, Susan Irvine, Katherine Keats-Rohan, Clare Lees, Sean Miller, David Parsons, Jane Roberts, David Rollason, Alan Thacker, Ann Williams, Andrew Wareham

• ‘Writers, saints and men of blessed memory in eighth-century England. Searching for a pattern’, Francesca Tinti
• ‘What’s in a Name?’, David A. E. Pelteret

Second PASE Colloquium, King’s College London

26 April 2004

Invited guests: Lesley Abrams, Julia Barrow, Mark Blackburn, Nicholas Brooks, Julia Crick, Katy Cubitt, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Helmut Gneuss, Malcolm Godden, Hans-Werner Goetz, Mechthild Gretsch, Jane Hawkes, Nick Higham, John Hines, Carole Hough, Rohini Jayatilaika, Michael Jeffries, Joy Jenkyns, Katherine Keats-Rohan, Ryan Lavelle, David Parsons, Jane Roberts, David Rollason, Lynda Rollason, Don Scragg, Elina Screen, Alan Thacker, Andrew Wareham, Ann Williams.

• ‘Facing Factoids’, Francesca Tinti

Third PASE Colloquium, King’s College London

5 June 2004

Invited guests: Lesley Abrams, Julia Barrow, Nicholas Brooks, Helmut Gneuss, Hans-Werner Goetz, Mechthild Gretsch, Joy Jenkyns, Ryan Lavelle, Anton Scharer, Jo Story, Alan Thacker.

• ‘Introducing the Master Database’, Alex Burghart
• ‘PASE Events and Event Terms: looking for possible groupings’, Francesca Tinti and Janet L. Nelson
• ‘The Anonymi of Anglo-Saxon England’, David Pelteret

Meetings of the International Advisory Committee

Meetings of the PASE 2 International Advisory Committee took place on 13 May 2006, and on 27 April 2007. Presentations were given by the research and technical teams on both occasions. The principal purpose of these meetings was to explore two key matters relating to PASE 2: the strategy for prioritizing primary sources covering the period from 1042 to c. 1100; and the strategy for capturing and analyzing prosopographical information in Domesday Book. This consultation process informed and refined the project’s Research Methodology.