Prosopography and microhistory: illuminating historical actors

Garry D. Carnegie and Karen M. McBride

Chapter 17 in Handbook of Historical Methods for Management, 2023, pp 245-263 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: People as actors can be the subject of historical research, en masse, individually or as groups. This chapter outlines two research methods which consider the lives or careers of historical actors, as individuals or in connected groups and focus on small scale settings. The research methods of microhistory and prosopography are linked as they both investigate the historical stories of people. For microhistory these stories take place in small places or pertaining to small units of research, having a focus on an event, an incident, a group, an individual or on a community. For prosopography this is extended to groups of connected individuals, a collective biography, considering how people are linked together and the impact of that in history. Prosopography and microhistory can both be used to find out about under-represented groups in history, those voices from below, or previously silent voices that tell their own story of the past.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Research Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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