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prosopography
/ˌprɒsə(ʊ)ˈpɒɡrəfi/
noun
Plural prosopographies
1 A description of a person's appearance, personality, career, etc., or a collection of such descriptions.
1.1 mass noun - The study of prosopographies, especially as an aspect of the study of Roman history.
Origin
1920s: from modern Latin prosopographia, from Greek prosōpon ‘face, person’ + -graphia ‘writing’.
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conducted a study of the mercantile and shipping families of the 1600s through 1800s in England, France, Spain and Portugal to develop a prosopography of colonialization. It was considered an important historical work.
