Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
"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).
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Academic field
Affiliation
Project link
arts-humanities.net
Principal investigator
Professor Dame Janet Nelson
Principal project staff
Professor Janet Nelson
Start date
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Completion date
Friday, February 1, 2008
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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.
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