Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan
Research Fellow
Having been awarded a PhD from Royal Holloway, Katharine Keats-Rohan has published extensively on prosopography and is founder director of the unit for Prosopographical Research at Linacre College, Oxford. She was also co-founder and General Editor of the Prosopographica et Genealogica imprint, which has published 12 volumes since 1997 as Occasional Publications of the same unit.
Since 1997 she has also been a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford, having previously held a Leverhulme Trust grant for a database project researching 'The Continental Origins of English Landholders 1066-1166 [COEL]'. Her main research interests currently are the medieval abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and monastic necrologies, and the history of the Honour and Borough of Wallingford.
Publications:
Recent publications include:
2007
Prosopography Approaches and Applications. A Handbook, ed. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan (Occasional Publication of the Unit for Prosopographical Research Vol. 13, Oxford, 2007), including her essay ‘Biography, Names and identity.: Understanding the pursuit of the individual in prosopgraphy’, available from http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk/course_syllabuses.htm, where there is also an online Tutorial in prosopography she has written.
‘What’s in a name? Some reflections on naming and identity in prosopography’, in Carreiras Ecclesiásticas no Ocidente Cristão (séc. xii-xiv)/Ecclesiastical Careers in Western Christianity (12th-14th c.), Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2007), 333-47.
2006
The Cartulary of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel (Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms 210) (Donington, 2006).
2004
'Testimonies of the Living Dead: The Martyrology-Necrology and Necrology in the Chapter Book of Mont-Saint-Michel (Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 214', in The Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, ed. D. Rollason, A. J. Pipe, Margaret Harvey, Lynda Rollason (Woodbridge, 2004).
2002
Continental Origins of English Landholders 1066-1166 Database (COEL)) (2002).
Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066- 1166 Volume II Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum (Woodbridge, 2002) [vol. I published 1999]