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

A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography
Herausgeber: Smith, Robert F. W.; Watson, Gemma L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding the remit of biography from people to things, tracing the 'life' of their chosen object from creation to use, to disposal, to rediscovery. The book explores the diversity of biography and the multi-disciplinary application of historical biography in the period 500-1700.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781472450678
• ISBN-10: 1472450671
• Artikelnr.: 45643832

Autorenporträt

Robert F. W. Smith is an independent researcher in early modern history, based in Norfolk. He completed a PhD at the University of Southampton in 2014, and is currently training as an archivist. Gemma L. Watson is an archaeologist specialising in later medieval material culture and currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; 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: 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.