John Frazee within the home by utilizing a prosopography of New York's organized men between 1800 and 1840. From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
It can stand with such a tower of prosopography as Sir Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution 1939, repr. variously. From Wordnik.com. [The Rest] Reference
V. -- I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Chapter One employs a prosopography of over one thousand trade unionists and Working Men's Party operatives based on an extensive analysis of census, tax list, probate, insolvency, and other documents. From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
In the wrong hands, the kind of history that concentrates upon economic problems can be quite as bad as ” and even more boring than ” bad prosopography. From Wordnik.com. [Bearing Gifts] Reference
But in my review of Syme's book in Journal of Roman Studies 1940, 73, I also expressed my fundamental objection to prosopography as a method of interpreting history: "Prosopographical research has the great virtue of reaching individuals or small groups, but does not explain their material or spiritual needs: it simply presupposes them. From Wordnik.com. [Bearing Gifts] Reference
Despite all differences of approach, he himself wrote only two years ago, "Ronald Syme wrote superbly and authoritatively when he used prosopography to clarify a revolutionary movement ” the upsurge of new social strata under Augustus" (English Historical Review, 1973, p. 115; compare his review of The Roman Revolution reprinted in Secondo Contributo alla Storia degli Studi Classici, 1960, 207 f. and his remarks in Studi Romani 14, 1966, 1-3). From Wordnik.com. [Bearing Gifts] Reference
1) On prosopography I wrote: "In retrospect it can be considered a blessing that the 'prosopographers' did not take over Greek social history as they did Roman history in the Forties and Fifties.". From Wordnik.com. [Bearing Gifts] Reference
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