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Katharine Stephanie Benedicta Keats-Rohan (; born 1957) is a British
history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
researcher, specialising in
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 a ...
. She has produced seminal work on early
European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early Eu ...
, and collaborated with, among others,
Christian Settipani Christian Settipani (born 31 January 1961) is a French genealogist, historian and IT professional, currently working as the Technical Director of a company in Paris. Biography Settipani holds a Master of Advanced Studies from the Paris-Sorb ...
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Keats-Rohan is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern prosopographical and network analysis research, which has become highly computer-dependent.


Works

*1997: (Ed.) ''Family Trees and the Roots of Politics: the Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century''. Woodbridge, Suffolk:
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*1997: ''Domesday Names: an Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in
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 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
''; with David Thornton *1999: ''Domesday People: a Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. I. Domesday Book'' Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press *1999: ''Prosopography of Post-Conquest England: the Continental Origin of English Landowners, 1066–1166'' *2000: ''Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval''; with Christian Settipani *2002: ''Domesday Descendants: a Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. II'' *2002: ''Resourcing Sources: Texts, Technology and Prosopography'' *2006: '' The Cartulary of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel''; with Shaun Tyas *2007: ''Prosopography Approaches and Applications: a Handbook'' (Prosopographica et Genealogica)


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Prosopography – resource development
Faculty of History, University of Oxford 1957 births Living people British historians British medievalists British women medievalists Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub