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Putting Technology to Work: the CD-ROM Version of the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867)

As the CD-ROM of the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867) is published, it is fitting to ask what exactly the CD can do for scholarship.1 Before dealing with actualites, however, three questions need to be answered: What is prosopography? What is PBE? And what is the CD? Prosopography (as it is known best to classicists and ancient historians), group-biography (as it is known to modern historians) or career-line analysis (as it is known to social scientists) is a well-established ancillary discipline to history.2 Lawrence Stone has provided the clearest and most complete definition of prosopography:2