Family memory and the Crusades

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Toward an Interactive Directory for Norfolk, Nebraska: 1899-1900

We describe steps toward an interactive directory for the town of Norfolk, Nebraska for the years 1899 and 1900. This directory would extend the traditional city directory by including a wider range of entities being described, much richer information about the entities mentioned and linkages to mentions of the entities in material such as digitized historical newspapers. Such a directory would be useful to readers who browse the historical newspapers by providing structured summaries of the entities mentioned. We describe the occurrence of entities in two years of the Norfolk Weekly News, focusing on several individuals to better understand the types of information which can be gleaned from historical newspapers and other historical materials. We also describe a prototype program which coordinates information about entities from the traditional city directories, the federal census, and from newspapers. We discuss the structured coding for these entities, noting that richer coding would increasingly include descriptions of events and scenarios. We propose that rich content about individuals and communities could eventually be modeled with agents and woven into historical narratives

Свидетельства эпиграфики. Античная история в зеркале древних надписей

В данной работе античные инскрипции представлены как источник к изучению следующих страниц в истории Греции и Рима: локальные языки и местные культуры, античные имена, семья и общество, светская и религиозная жизнь, экономика.Настоящая монография издана в серии "Approaching the Ancient World". Приложения: краткий справочник наиболее авторитетных международных изданий античных надписей (с. 153-174), библиография (с. 191-225), указатель источников (с. 226-232), общий указатель (с. 233-246)

The Ingenious Crowd�: A Critical Prosopography of British Inventors, 1650-1850

simulation, models

Corporate influence and the academic computer science discipline.

Prosopography of a major academic center for computer science

Les autres de l'un : deux enqu\^etes prosopographiques sur Charles Hermite

Prosopography is usually used to globally describe a large population of ordinary subjects. It is thus opposed to biography, as a genre devoted to exceptional individuals. I show in this article how to use prosopography to study a single person, an exceptional mathematician, Charles Hermite. I construct several prosopographies (f.i. that of the authors quoted by Hermite, or that of the people writing number-theoretical texts between 1870 and 1914) and show how they allow to capture singular characteristics of Hermite, f.i. his role as a mediator, his mathematical reactions to specific themes, etc