Bates / Crick / Hamilton Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250

Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84615-514-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bates, David

Crick, Julia

Hamilton, Sarah

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yorke, Barbara

Holdsworth, Christopher J

Bates, David

Crouch, David

King, Edmund

van Houts, Elisabeth M C

Martindale, Jane P.

Nelson, Janet L

Gillingham, John B

Grant, Lindy

Chibnall, Marjorie

Vincent, Nicholas

Stafford, Pauline

Abels, Richard P.

Fleming, Robin

Keynes, Simon D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 D 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 Rechin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine - Jane P. Martindale
Reading the Signs: Bernard of Clairvaux and His Miracles - C J 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 B Gillingham
Writing a Biography in the Thirteenth Century: the Construction and Composition of the `History of Willliam Marshal' - David Crouch
The Strange Case of the Missing Biographies: The Lives of the Plantaganet Kings of England 1154-1272 - Nicholas Vincent

Über Autor(innen)

Crouch David:
David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding.van Houts Elisabeth M C:
Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.Vincent Nicholas:
NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy