The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. the Middle Ages

by Karen A Winstead and Karen A. Winstead

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198707045
• ISBN13: 9780198707042
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"