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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781846155147 (ebook)

Content: 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 period to its peculiar challenge to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD. Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and from individual to the collective biographies, this collection investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK and Dr SARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the University of Exeter.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , Did Charlemagne have a private life? / , Bones for historians : putting the body back into biography / , "Carriers of the truth" : writing the biographies of Anglo-Saxon female saints / , Alfred and his biographers : images and imagination / , Re-reading King Æthelred the Unready / , Writing the biography of eleventh-century queens / , The Flemish contribution to biographical writing in England in the eleventh century / , The Conqueror's earliest historians and the writing of his biography / , Secular propaganda and aristocratic values : the autobiographies of Count Fulk le Réchin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine / , Reading the signs : Bernard of Clairvaux and his miracles / , Arnulf's mentor : Geoffrey of Lèves, Bishop of Chartres / , The Empress Matilda as a subject for biography / , The Gesta Stephani / , Writing the biography of Roger of Howden, king's clerk and chronicler / , Writing a biography in the thirteenth century : the construction and composition of the 'History of William Marshal' / , The strange case of the missing biographies : the lives of the Plantaganet kings of England, 1154-1272 /

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781843832621

Language: English

Subjects: History , Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

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Format: XIII, 262 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-1-84383-262-1 , 1-84383-262-3

Note: The conference, entitled "The Limits of Medieval Biography" and held at the University of Exeter between 10 and 12 July in 2003 ... - aus dem Vorwort. - Festschrift Frank Barlow

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-84615-514-7

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Mittelalter ; Biografie ; Konferenzschrift ; Festschrift

URL: Rezension

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Format: 1 online resource (512 p.)

ISBN: 9780300147711

Series Statement: The English Monarchs Series

Content: William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England's king for only 13 years (1087-1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank Barlow reveals an unconventional, flamboyant William Rufus-a far more attractive and interesting monarch than previously believed. Weaving an intimate account of the life of the king into the wider history of Anglo-Norman government, Barlow shows how William confirmed royal power in England, restored the ducal rights in France, and consolidated the Norman conquest.A boisterous man, William had many friends and none of the cold cruelty of most medieval monarchs. He was famous for his generosity and courage and generally known to be homosexual. Licentious, eccentric, and outrageous, his court was attacked at the time by Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, and later by censorious historians. This highly readable account of William Rufus and his brief but important reign is an essential volume for readers with an interest in Anglo-Saxon and medieval history or in the lives of extraordinary monarchs.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Foreword to the Yale Edition -- , Preface to the First Edition -- , Preface to the First Paperback Edition -- , Abbreviated References -- , Chapter 1. Background and Youth -- , Chapter 2. The Kingdom Obtained (1087-1088) -- , Chapter 3. The Bachelor King and His Domestic Servants -- , Chapter 4. The Nobility and Higher Clergy and the Royal Government -- , Chapter 5. The Sinews of War -- , Chapter 6. The Three Brothers (1088-1095) -- , Chapter 7. The Conquering Hero (1094-1100) -- , Chapter 8. Death in the Afternoon (1100) -- , Epilogue -- , Appendices -- , The Royal Itinerary -- , Select Bibliography -- , Genealogical Tables -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-08291-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300147711

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Format: XIII, 262 S , Ill

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9781843832621 , 1843832623

Former: Festschrift Frank Barlow

Language: English

Subjects: History , Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Biografie ; Geschichte 750-1250 ; Mittelalter ; Konferenzschrift ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung

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