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26 avril 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.65417
- isbn: 9782859442958
- eisbn: 9791035104573
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Gerald E. Aylmer, « Prosopography and seventeenth-century England », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.65417
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I shall not waste the time of this conference by offering yet another definition of our subject. It is, however, desirable to remind ourselves that the compilation of short ’lives’, or indeed collective biographies, which can be traced back in western literary culture at least to Plutarch, is not the same thing as prosopography. Thus, for example, the Dictionary of National Bioqraphy and the Complete Peerage, although invaluable works of reference for all periods of British history, provide t...