Leeds International Medieval Congress, 8/07/2025
The EX-PATRIA will organise a Session and a Round Table to address the methodological challenges faced by historians working on digital prosopographies.
Digital Late Antique Prosopography, I: Between Fragmented Knowledge and Formal Methods
We will offer an interdisciplinary reflection and discussion on managing incompleteness, uncertainty, inconsistency, and internal conflicts in historical sources, in application to Late Antique prosopographical data. We will also focus on the potential benefits of correct formalisation and transparency of integration of incoherent data into digital tools, which includes possibilities of automatised querying, search for patterns and connections and generating new historical knowledge.