Book of Donmon Teith

Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and society; at wo

With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and othe

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin li

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw re

This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British liter