This bibliography contains core works for understanding, studying and conducting prosopographical research. For the most part, it focuses on theory and methods papers rather than on exemplars.

Ankoud, R., ‘Prosopography: An Approach to Studying Elites and Social Groups’, Al-Muntaqa 3, No. 1 (2020): 70–85.
https://doi.org/10.31430/almuntaqa.3.1.0070

Baillie, James. ‘Alternative Database Structures for Prosopographical Research’, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 15.1-2, Edinburgh, 2021, 117-132.

Bradley, J., ‘Silk purses and sow’s ears: can structured data deal with historical sources?’, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 8.1 (2014), 13-27.
https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2014.0117

Bradley, J., Pasin, M., ‘Factoid-based prosopography and computer ontologies: towards an integrated approach’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 1, (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqt037

Carney, T.F., ‘Prosopography: Payoffs and Pitfalls’, Phoenix, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer, 1973)
https://doi.org/10.2307/1087487

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., ‘Biography, Identity and Names’, in: Katharine Keats-Rohan (ed), Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook, Oxford 2007, 139-181
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013618/http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk/images/06%20KKR.pdf.pdf)

Bodard, G., et al. ‘Standards for Networking Ancient Person data: Digital approaches to problems in prosopographical space’, Digital Classics Online 3.2 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.11588/dco.2017.0.37975

Lawrence, K.F., et al. ‘Prosopography is Greek for Facebook’, WebSci '15: Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2786451.2786496

Mathisen, R.W., ‘Where are all the PDBs?: The Creation of Prosopographical Databases for the Ancient and Medieval Worlds’, in: Katharine Keats-Rohan (ed), Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook, Oxford 2007, 95-126
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013525/http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk/images/04%20Mathisen%20pdf.pdf)

Stone, L., ‘Prosopography’, Daedalus 100, no. 1 (1971): 46–79.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20023990

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