Dr Katharine Stephanie Benedicta Keats-Rohan (born 1957) is a history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 researcher at Linacre College

Linacre College, Oxford

Linacre College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the UK, currently offering graduate entry only. It is located on St Cross Road at the corner of St Cross Road and South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by...

, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, specialising in prosopography

Prosopography

In historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis...

. She has produced seminal work on early European history, and collaborated with, among others, Christian Settipani

Christian Settipani

Christian Settipani is the Technical Director of an IT company in Paris and a genealogist and historian.He has a Master of Advanced Studies degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University and is currently preparing his doctoral thesis, while he often gives lectures to students undergraduates at the...

. 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: Boydell Press
• 1997: Domesday Names: an Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book
  Domesday Book
  Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
  
  ; 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)

External links

• Prosopography – resource development, Faculty of History, University of Oxford