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More Than Childbirth: Unveiling the Risks of Marriage on Women's Mortality in Tang Dynasty China. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates how marital and maternal statuses influenced female mortality in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 ce), China. It challenges the focus on reproductive risks by exploring both biological and social factors affecting female mortality in reproductive and post‐reproductive years.
Liu Y.
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Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED). [PDF]
ABSTRACT The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be ...
Bühlmann F +69 more
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THE HOPES AT WAR IN THE 18TH CENTURY
The publication under review is a prosopographical study of those members of a Scottish family - the Hopes of Craig hall and the cadet branches of Hopetoun and Craigiehall – who served in the British armed forces during the eighteenth century.
Ian Van der Waag
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QUAND L’INTERDISCIPLINARITE S’IMPOSE : CONTOURNEMENT D’UN REFUS DE TERRAIN PAR LA PROSOPOGRAPHIE
When Interdisciplinarity Seems the Right Thing to Do: Overcoming Rejection from the Field Through Prosopography. This paper addresses the practical modalities of entry into interdisciplinarity.
Marion DEMONTEIL
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“Bastard feudalism” is a system of patronage-client relations that existed in England in the late Middle Ages, opposed to the vassal-seigneurial relations of classical feudalism. This concept has been used in historiography since the 19th century, but is
A. G. Prazdnikov
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The Guilhem family, lords of Montpellier, were one of the great feudal families of Languedoc in the 12th century. Relying on the wealth of Montpellier, a new town in full expansion, they imposed their authority on the surrounding castellans and ...
Alexandre Vergos
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The purpose of this article is to reconsider the political career of two legates of Caesar, T. Labienus and C. Caninius Rebilus, through the prosopographic method. T.
Guillaume de Méritens de Villeneuve
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From the History of Byzantine Servile Aristocracy: Chalkoutzes Family in the 10th–11th Centuries
The article is devoted to the genus Chalkoutzes, whose representatives occupied a strong position in the Byzantine aristocracy during the 10th–11th centuries. The author, analyzing documentary, narrative and data of lead seals, presents data on more than
Dmitriy S. Borovkov
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Berkeley Prosopography Services: Building Research Communities and Restoring Ancient Communities through Digital Tools [PDF]
Berkeley Prosopography Service (BPS) is an innovative open-source digital tool and service that automatically extracts prosopographic data from TEI-encoded text and generates visualizations of the dynamic social networks contained in the text corpora ...
Laurie Pearce +3 more
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Leo Sgouros is one of the Byzantine magnates who ruled in the northeastern Peloponnese in the late 12th – early 13th centuries. The paper discusses the separatist activity of the Leo Sgouros which allowed him in a short time to create ephemeral ‘state ...
Viktor N. Chkhaidze
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