Prosopography is an important methodological tool within historical research, its goal being the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period, often in the form of a register or database (frequently also known as a "Prosopography", e.g. The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire).

Further reading

• Radner, K. (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Helsinki, 1998-2002. [1] http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/pna.html

External links

• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/pase/pase.htm - a project designed to provide a comprehensive biographical register of recorded inhabitants of Anglo-Saxon England (c. 450-1066), to be accessible in the form of a searchable on-line database, and intended to facilitate further research in many different aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies.