Prosopography
pros·o·pog·ra·phy
/ˌpräsəˈpäɡrəfē/
noun
noun: prosopography; plural noun: prosopographies
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a description of a person’s social and family connections, career, etc., or a collection of such descriptions.“Genet’s prosopography of the members of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages”
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the study of prosopography, especially in Roman history.
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Origin
1920s: from modern Latin prosopographia, from Greek prosōpon ‘face, person’ + -graphia ‘writing’.
Use over time for: prosopography
