Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700

Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700

A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography

Smith, Robert F.W.; Watson, Gemma L.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

320

Mole

9781032922232

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Foreword; Introduction, Robert F.W. Smith and Gemma L. Watson. Part I Rescuing Forgotten Lives: The (truncated) life of Alice de Solers Rufus nee de Huntingfield: 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 at 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: the Petworth House plays, Maria Kirk. Part IV Communities and Individuals: Patrons and their commissions: the uses of biography in understanding the construction of the nave of Hole Trinity, Bottisham, 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 institutional biography: medieval and modern uses of the 13th-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. Index.
Vincent Van Gogh;TNA;Edward III;National Biography;Henry III;Vp;Public Record Oce;Cruciform Brooch;Philip Skippon;Group Biography;Innocent Iii;Early Anglo-Saxon;Liber Confortatorius;Pope Innocent Iii;Bullarium Franciscanum;Winchester College;Running Titles;Southampton Probate Inventories;Medieval Hostage;Gwen Seabourne;Young Men;Cecil Papers;Early Anglo-Saxon England;Honorius III;Hateld House