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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of Life-Writing
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages
explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late
Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle
Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and
experimenting with ways to translate lives, their own and others',
into literature. Their subjects included career religious, saints,
celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets,
and even a few 'ordinary people.' They relay life stories not only
in chronological narratives, but also in debates, dialogues,
visions, and letters. Many medieval biographers relied on the
reader's trust in their authority, but some espoused standards of
evidence that seem distinctly modern, drawing on reliable written
sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts
wherever possible. Others still professed allegiance to evidence
but nonetheless freely embellished and invented not only events and
dialogue but the sources to support them. The first book devoted to
life-writing in medieval England, The Oxford History of
Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages covers major life stories
in Old and Middle English, Latin, and French, along with such
Continental classics as the letters of Abelard and Heloise and the
autobiographical Vision of Christine de Pizan. In addition to the
life stories of historical figures, it treats accounts of fictional
heroes, from Beowulf to King Arthur to Queen Katherine of
Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with,
adapting, and expanding the conventions of life writing. Though
Medieval life writings can be challenging to read, we encounter in
them the antecedents of many of our own diverse biographical
forms-tabloid lives, literary lives, brief lives, revisionist
lives; lives of political figures, memoirs, fictional lives, and
psychologically-oriented accounts that register the inner lives of
their subjects.
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