Format:
xviii, 301 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781472450678
Content:
Introduction / Robert F. W. Smith and Gemma L. Watson -- Part I. Rescuing forgotten lives -- The (truncated) life of Alice de Solers Rufus née de Huntingfield: a Medieval hostage, wife and widow / Katherine Weikert -- Writing the lives of legal writers: the use of prosopography in Medieval legal history / Kitrina Bevan -- The scandalous life of a puritan divine: John Harmar and Winchester College, 1569-1613 / Robert F. W. Smith -- Part II. The lives of objects and their owners -- The lives and deaths of people and things: biographical approaches to dress in early Anglo-Saxon England / Toby F. Martin -- Roger Machado: a life in objects / Gemma L. Watson -- Mary Beale (1633-1699) and her objects of affection / Helen Draper -- "Look here upon this picture": how Hamlet reads portraits as biographical texts / Yolana Wassersug -- Part III. The life of the book -- Textual criticism, biography and the case of William White, printer / Natalie C. Aldred -- Scriptural truths? Calvinist internationalism and military professionalism in the bible of Philip Skippon / Ismini Pells -- Books and their lives: collection, biography and the Petworth House plays / Maria Kirk -- Part IV. Communities and individuals -- Real and ideal biographies in Medieval parish church building / Gabriel Byng -- Writing community: the opportunities and challenges of group biography in the case of Wilton Abbey / Kathryn Maude -- Part V. Representing lives -- Hagiography as biography, biography as "history": Medieval and modern uses of the thirteenth-century vitae of Clare of Assisi / Kirsty Day -- Functions of anchoritic spaces and the implications of omission in Julian of Norwich's "Revelations of divine love" / Justin M. Byron-Davies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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The (truncated) life of Alice de Solers Rufus née de Huntingfield: a Medieval hostage, wife and widow
,
Writing the lives of legal writers: the use of prosopography in Medieval legal history
,
The scandalous life of a puritan divine: John Harmar and Winchester College, 1569-1613
,
Part II. The lives of objects and their owners ; The lives and deaths of people and things: biographical approaches to dress in early Anglo-Saxon England
,
Roger Machado: a life in objects
,
Mary Beale (1633-1699) and her objects of affection
,
"Look here upon this picture": how Hamlet reads portraits as biographical texts
,
Part III. The life of the book ; Textual criticism, biography and the case of William White, printer
,
Scriptural truths? Calvinist internationalism and military professionalism in the bible of Philip Skippon
,
Books and their lives: collection, biography and the Petworth House plays
,
Part IV. Communities and individuals ; Real and ideal biographies in Medieval parish church building
,
Writing community: the opportunities and challenges of group biography in the case of Wilton Abbey
,
Part V. Representing lives ; Hagiography as biography, biography as "history": Medieval and modern uses of the thirteenth-century vitae of Clare of Assisi
,
Functions of anchoritic spaces and the implications of omission in Julian of Norwich's "Revelations of divine love"
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472450685
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472450692
Language:
English
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