Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Welcome to PBW 2016!
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A full account of the sources studied, together with the names of the scholars responsible, will be found here; this also serves as an index of the coverage of the project, which is a prosopographical reading of Byzantine Sources, 1025-1180. In this new edition materials have been added and enhanced, principally for the 12^th century; the most significant additions are from further work on William of Tyre and Nicetas Choniates, and substantial new materials from the Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Such an undertaking can never be complete, as new discoveries are constantly being made; while PBW should be examined for what it contains, it should never be assumed that what it does not contain does not exist.

This edition is the work of Michael Jeffreys (Viaf). The redesign and updating of the site are by Elliott Hall (KDL) and Charlotte Roueché (Orcid); external links have been added by Roueché.

The full bibliographic description is
M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017) available at http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk.
ISBN: 978-1-908951-20-5
The standard abbreviation is PBW (2016).
Users are encouraged to publish the permalinks provided for each individual on person pages: so:
PBW (2016) Leon 20224, <http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Leon/20224/>