The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to construct a

prosopography Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line an ...

of individuals within

Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom o ...

The PASE online databasePASE
, UK. presents details (which it calls factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1087, with specific citations to (and often quotations from) each primary source describing each factoid. PASE was funded by the British

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from 2000 to 2008 as a major research project based at

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in the Department of History and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now the Department of Digital Humanities), and at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. The first phase of the project (PASE1) was launched at the

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on 27 May 2005 and is freely available on the

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at www.pase.ac.uk. This covers individuals named in written sources up to 1066, and contains 11,758 individuals. Each person is assigned a number, to aid the ready identification of individuals in future scholarship- eg. King Alfred the Great is denoted as Alfred 8. Each named individual is accompanied by the various spellings of their name as it appears in the written sources, along with factoids on their career and personal relationships where this can be determined. A second phase (PASE2), released on 10 August 2010, added information drawn chiefly from the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

to the database. This includes 19,807 named individuals. The landholdings of these individuals are mapped, along with a table illustrating their named landholdings. In cases where enough information is possible, a small prose biography is provided. A number of publications have resulted from the creation of the PASE database - these are listed on the site. The PASE database is dedicated to Professor Nicholas Brooks and Dr Ann Williams.

Directors

* Dame Janet 'Jinty' Nelson *

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.< ...

Harold Short Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King's College London. He founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (later Department of Digital Humanities) until his retirement (2010). He was involved in the development with Willard M ...

* Stephen Baxter

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External links

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Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic
University of Cambridge
Department of Digital Humanities
KCL {{Classical prosopography Historiography of England Databases in England Anglo-Saxon studies scholars King's College London Organisations associated with the University of Cambridge Research projects Online databases Prosopography

Directors

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