Prosopography of the Lascarid Period (PLAS)

Prosopography of the Lascarid Period (PLAS)

In 2018, Ekaterini Mitsiou initiated the establishment of an online digital platform in order to create a prosopographical database for the Lascarid Period (PLAS, 1204-1258 CE). PLAS closes a lacuna between other prosopographies for the Byzantine Empire (the Prosopography of the Byzantine World at King's College on the one hand and the Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, on the other hand). At the same time, this initiative is intended to serve as the digital core of a more far- reaching prosopography of late medieval Mediterranean and beyond; therefore, a cooperation has been established with the ENCHANT project (Entangled Charters of Anatolia, 1200-1300, funded by the Austrian Science Funds FWF) of Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. Via the use of the same database platform, immediate connections and synergies between this project and PLAS are created. For the moment, the PLAS-platform is online, but still in an early stage and accessible only via password. If you are however interested in the project, please contact Ekaterini Mitsiou.