Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 2 Montaigne’s Elusive Self: An Essay

Chapter 3 The Life-Enhancing Value of Life-Writing: On the Uses and Disadvantages of History in Vasari’s Lives of the Artists

Chapter 4 Benvenuto Cellini Magnanimously Corrects the Irritating Ignorance of Life Writers in General and in Regard to My Vita in This Letter from Hell

Chapter 5 Conversion and Crossing Frontiers: The Lives of the Spanish Monks

Chapter 6 Everard Nithard’s Memorias: The Jesuits Confessor’s Quest for Re-Fashioning the Self, People, and Events

Chapter 7 Egodocuments and The Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr.

Chapter 8 Writing About the “Other” in One’s Life: Life-Writing and Egodocuments of King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713–1740) as Historical Problem

Chapter 9 Dimensions of the Self in Autobiographical Life-Writing: James Boswell’s Journals and William Hickey’s Memoirs

Chapter 10 Lives in Letters: Italian Renaissance Correspondence as Life-Writing

Chapter 11 A Dutch Notary and His Clients

Chapter 12 Genres and Modes of Women’s Life-Writing: Anne Clifford and Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans