Writing medieval biography, 750-1250 : essays in honour of Professor Frank Barlow /

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 perio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Limits of Medieval Biography
Other Authors: Bates, David, 1945-, Crick, Julia C., 1963-, Hamilton, Sarah, 1966-, Barlow, Frank
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2006.
Subjects:
500-1500
Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500 > History and criticism > Congresses.
Biography as a literary form > Congresses.
Biographies > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Biographie (Genre littéraire) > Congrès.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Biography
Biography as a literary form.
Biography > Middle Ages.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Actes de congrès.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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