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
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. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy
It bespeaks the vibrancy of the subject and the guiding hands of
the editors that, unusually for an edited collection, this one
forms an intellectually and thematically coherent whole.
*EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE*
[This] splendid book [...] provides a series of thought-provoking
affirmations of the place of biography among the historical
sciences. BIOGRAPHY:
*AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY*
A fine volume.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*
All in all, this is a volume which anyone who wishes to attempt the
biography of a medieval individual should regard as essential
reading, and anyone interested in medieval people as individuals
should read as a matter of course
*ANN WILLIAMS, EHR*
The articles [.] are uniformly excellent and immensely thoughtful.
[.] Reading any of them will make one a better historian.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*
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