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Writing the lives of people and things, ad 500-1700 : a multi-disciplinary future for biography / edited by Robert F.W. Smith and Gemma L. Watson.

Contributor(s): Smith, Robert F. W [editor.] | Watson, Gemma L [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472450678; 1472450671Subject(s): Biography as a literary form -- History | Historiography -- HistoryDDC classification: 907.2 LOC classification: CT31 | .W75 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Robert F.W. Smith and Gemma L. Watson -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Communities and individuals -- Patrons and their commissions: the uses of biography in understanding the construction of the Nave of Holy Trinity, Bottisham / Gabriel Byng -- Writing community: the opportunities and challenges of group biography in the case of Wilton Abbey / Kathryn Maude -- Representing lives -- Hagiography as institutional biography: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: 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 Holy 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 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.

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