Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 : Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow /: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Bates, Jane P. Martindale, Janet L Nelson, John B Gillingham, Lindy Grant, Marjorie Chibnall, Nicholas Vincent, Pauline Stafford, Richard P. Abels, Robin Fleming, Simon D Keynes, Julia Crick, Sarah Hamilton, Barbara Yorke, Christopher J Holdsworth, David Bates, David Crouch, Edmund King, Professor Elisabeth M C van Houts.
• Editors: Bates, David; Crick, Julia; Hamilton, Sarah
• Other Names: Martindale, Jane P contributor.; Nelson, Janet L contributor.; Gillingham, John B contributor.; Grant, Lindy contributor.; Chibnall, Marjorie contributor.; Vincent, Nicholas contributor.; Stafford, Pauline contributor.; Abels, Richard P contributor.; Fleming, Robin contributor.; Keynes, Simon D contributor.; Yorke, Barbara contributor.; Holdsworth, Christopher J contributor.; Bates, David contributor.; Crouch, David contributor.; King, Edmund contributor.; Professor van Houts, Professor Elisabeth M C contributor.
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846155147; 1846155142
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