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Matthew Paris (d. ... Similarly detailed and introspective saints' lives continued to be written into the early modern period, as Alexander Barclay's Life of Saint George (1515) and Henry Bradshaw's Life of Saint Werburga (1521) attest.
The Oxford History of Life-Writing consolidates recent academic research and debate to provide a multi-volume history of life-writing.
The Oxford History of Life-Writing consolidates recent academic research and debate to provide a multi-volume history of life-writing.
By the end of the timespan covered in this book life-writing was no longer something done mainly by important individuals who wrote their autobiography, or by sensitive souls who kept a diary.