Editing Prosopography (section)

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'''Prosopography''' is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis.<ref name="stone">Stone 1971.</ref> The discipline is considered to be one of the [[auxiliary sciences of history]].