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The Social Origins and Education of the British Civil Service Elite, 1945–2022

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a fuller account than previously available of the extent of change in the social backgrounds of the British civil service elite from 1945 onwards. We consider our findings in relation to questions of meritocracy in recruitment to the elite and of the representativeness of the elite of the population at large.
Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe, Inga Steinberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of: Olga Karagiorgou – Pantelis Charalampakis – Christos Malatras (eds.), TAKTIKON. Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata

Gephyra
This volume presents the first results of the TAKTIKON research project on the prosopography and administration of the Byzantine themata (the large administrative divisions of the Byzantine State), which is being realized at the Academy of Athens by Olga
Murat Keçiş
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biographical materials of mathematicians and natural scientists in “Bulletin of Experimental Physics and Elementary Mathematics” (1886–1917): meaningful and content analysis

Історія науки і техніки, 2022
The article presents the results of a study of the features of biographical and prosopographic materials about famous mathematicians and natural scientists, published in one of the most authoritative journals “Bulletin of Experimental Physics and ...
Natalya Pasichnyk, Renat Rizhniak, Нanna Deforzh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Les intendants de Mexico : approche prosopographique et relationnelle

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
The introduction of the intendant system in New Spain and its ordinance of 1786 (Real ordenanza para el establecimiento é instruccion de intendentes de exército y provincial en el reino de Nueva-España) have already made the object of numerous studies ...
Marie-Pierre Lacoste
doaj   +1 more source

An Unpublished Inscription From the ʾAwām Sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah: New Evidence for a Royal mqtwy and Sabaean Campaigns in the ‘Land of the Abyssinians’

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
wiley   +1 more source

Macedonius of Constantinople, a True Eusebian? Contribution (IV) to the Christian Prosopography of the Dioecesis Thraciarum

Classica et Christiana
This paper deal with the figure of Macedonius, which was the second pro-Arian head of the Church of Constantinople, from 342 to 360, but with two periods of interruption, during which the pro-Nicene Paul regained his see. Macedonius became bishop because
Alenka Cedilnik, Dominic Moreau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
wiley   +1 more source

Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
wiley   +1 more source

Who’s who in the system of the Egyptian cults on the Black Sea coast: prosopographic and anthroponymic analysis of the adherents from the Danube Delta to Callatis [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice
The conquests of the Roman state and the subsequent peace of Augustus ultimately changed the historical and cultural map of the Mediterranean. Included in the provincial system, the population of three continents establishes contacts to a much greater ...
Stefan Yanakiev
doaj   +1 more source

Power and Aristocracy – Transformation and Composition of the Komnenos “Clan” (1081–1200) – A Statistical Approach

Studia Ceranea, 2020
The fall of imperial authority and the decline of the Byzantine state at the end of the 12th century has its cause not only in foreign policy but also, to a large extent, in the family policy of the Komnenoi emperors.
Paweł Lachowicz
doaj   +1 more source