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HILAME. A prosopography of people who lived in the Middle Ages.

Main database

The main HILAME database is built from the meticulous work of our documentalists
and researchers.

It is a cumulative project that continuously incorporates new prosopographical data as
preserved medieval documents are analyzed.
This feature gives users the opportunity to explore the documented human landscape of
this region—the Cantabrian Coast—and this period—the Late Middle Ages.

MAIN
DATA BASE

ACCESS

General Users

You can freely browse all sections of the website and all databases containing results:
the main database, which gathers all identified individuals as research progresses, and
the secondary databases, which include complementary materials such as genealogies
and the prototype of the social network visualizer.

Advanced Users

The main database offers a versatile search system.
Searches can be simple or combined. Users with philological interests can perform
simple searches by words or names, or explore the factoids associated with the
linguistic abilities of identified individuals.

Historians

Historians can identify which individuals are linked to a specific source, explore
information about a lineage, or find people tagged with a particular factoid.
They can also perform combined searches using the main criteria by which the database
is organized: contexts, places, persons, factoids, lineages, sources, and chronology.

  • Contexts are the textual excerpts from which information is extracted.
  • Places associated with individuals are georeferenced through Google Maps.
  • People are the core of the application and can be searched directly by any of
    their onomastic markers.
  • Factoids are the tags through which individuals are linked—and
    interpreted—within their historical and documentary context.
  • Lineages connect individuals to aristocratic families when reliable evidence
    supports that relationship.
  • Sources are the works or collections of medieval documents from which the
    information is drawn.
  • Chronology enables searches by a specific year or within a selected time range.Las personas ocupan el centro de la aplicación, pudiéndose buscar directamente por cualquiera de sus marcadores onomásticos.
¡Buena exploración!