Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250

David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

It bespeaks the vibrancy of the subject and the guiding hands of the editors that, unusually for an edited collection, this one forms an intellectually and thematically coherent whole.

• Did Charlemagne Have a Private Life? - Janet L NelsonBones for Historians: Putting the Body back into Biography - Robin Fleming`Carriers of the Truth': Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints - Barbara YorkeAlfred and His Biographers: Images and Imagination - Richard AbelsRe-reading King Æthelred the Unready - Simon D KeynesWriting the Biography of Eleventh-Century Queens - Pauline StaffordThe Flemish Contribution to Biographical Writing in England in the Eleventh Century - Elisabeth Van HoutsThe Conqueror's Earliest Historians and the Writing of His Biography - David BatesSecular Propaganda and Aristocratic Values: The Autobiographies of Count Fulk le Rechin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine - Jane P. MartindaleReading the Signs: Bernard of Clairvaux and His Miracles - C J HoldsworthArnulf's Mentor: Geoffrey of Lèves, Bishop of Chartres - Lindy GrantThe Empress Matilda as a Subject for Biography - Marjorie ChibnallThe Gesta Stephani - Edmund KingWriting the Biography of Roger of Howden, King's Clerk and Chronicler - John B GillinghamWriting a Biography in the Thirteenth Century: the Construction and Composition of the `History of Willliam Marshal' - David CrouchThe Strange Case of the Missing Biographies: The Lives of the Plantaganet Kings of England 1154-1272 - Nicholas Vincent