Writing Medieval Biography 750 - 1250

, by Bates, David

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ISBN: 9781843832621 | 1843832623
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/30/2006

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

Preface

vii

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

(14)

David Bates

Julia Crick

Sarah Hamilton

Did Charlemagne have a Private Life?

(14)

Janet L. Nelson

Bones for Historians: Putting the Body back into Biography

(20)

Robin Fleming

`Carriers of the Truth': Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints

(12)

Barbara Yorke

Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination

(16)

Richard Abels

Re-Reading King Aethelred the Unready

(22)

Simon Keynes

Writing the Biography of Eleventh-Century Queens

(12)

Pauline Stafford

The Flemish Contribution to Biographical Writing in England in the Eleventh Century

111

(18)

Elisabeth Van Houts

The Conqueror's Earliest Historians and the Writing of his Biography

129

(14)

David Bates

Secular Propaganda and Aristocratic Values: The Autobiographies of Count Fulk le Rechin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine

143

(18)

Jane Martindale

Reading the Signs: Bernard of Clairvaux and his Miracles

161

(12)

Christopher Holdsworth

Arnulf's Mentor: Geoffrey of Leves, Bishop of Chartres

173

(12)

Lindy Grant

The Empress Matilda as a Subject for Biography

185

(10)

Marjorie Chibnall

The Gesta Stephani

195

(12)

Edmund King

Writing the Biography of Roger of Howden, King's Clerk and Chronicler

207

(14)

John Gillingham

Writing a Biography in the Thirteenth Century: The Construction and Composition of the `History of William Marshal'

221

(16)

David Crouch

The Strange Case of the Missing Biographies: The Lives of the Plantagenet Kings of England 1154--1272

237

(22)

Nicholas Vincent

Index

259

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Writing Medieval Biography 750 - 1250

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