This panel intends to highlight prosopographical analysis as a method of exploring the history of premodern women, especially those who have been neglected or overlooked by modern historians due to their exclusion from contemporary chronicles and other narrative sources. The panel’s scope encompasses women in the European West from the twelfth through the eighteenth century, and will draw interest from members of the Medieval Academy of America and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Its methodological focus and contribution to women's history more broadly will draw further attention from historians regardless of subject area and time period. The panel paves the way for effective comparison of premodern women across time periods, geographic boundaries, and languages. It combines panelists who each utilize different documentary and manuscript source genres to research groups of premodern women from a range of social strata, economic backgrounds, family lives, and experiences. How can a prosopographical approach to documentary sources reveal new information about premodern women: their lives, priorities, and historical influence?