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1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) |
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Did Charlemagne have a private life? / Janet L. Nelson -- Bones for historians : putting the body back into biography / Robin Fleming -- "Carriers of the truth" : writing the biographies of Anglo-Saxon female saints / Barbara Yorke -- Alfred and his biographers : images and imagination / Richard Abels -- Re-reading King Æthelred the Unready / Simon Keynes -- Writing the biography of eleventh-century queens / Pauline Stafford -- The Flemish contribution to biographical writing in England in the eleventh century / Elisabeth Van Houts -- The Conqueror's earliest historians and the writing of his biography / David Bates -- Secular propaganda and aristocratic values : the autobiographies of Count Fulk le Réchin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine / Jane Martindale -- Reading the signs : Bernard of Clairvaux and his miracles / Christopher Holdsworth -- Arnulf's mentor : Geoffrey of Lèves, Bishop of Chartres / Lindy Grant -- The Empress Matilda as a subject for biography / Marjorie Chibnall -- The Gesta Stephani / Edmund King -- Writing the biography of Roger of Howden, king's clerk and chronicler / John Gillingham -- Writing a biography in the thirteenth century : the construction and composition of the 'History of William Marshal' / David Crouch -- The strange case of the missing biographies : the lives of the Plantaganet kings of England, 1154-1272 / Nicholas Vincent |
| Summary |
A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD. Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and from individual to the collective biographies, this collection investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK and Dr SARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the University of Exeter |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Biography -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Biography as a literary form -- Congresses
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Biography
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Biography as a literary form
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Biography -- Middle Ages
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bates, David, 1945-
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Crick, Julia C., 1963-
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Hamilton, Sarah, 1966-
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Barlow, Frank.
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Limits of Medieval Biography (2003 : University of Exeter)
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| ISBN |
9781846155147 |
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1846155142 |
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