Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 - Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow

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

List 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 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

About the author

David Bates, Julia Crick, Sarah Hamilton

Product details

• Authors: David Bates
• Assisted by: David Bates (Editor), Julia Crick (Editor), Sarah Hamilton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9781843832621
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-262-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism