TY - BOOK
T1 - Biography Across the Digitized Globe
T2 - Essays in Honour of Hans Renders
A2 - Veltman, David
A2 - Meister, Daniel R.
PY - 2025/2/28
Y1 - 2025/2/28
N2 - This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. Over this same period, however, the availability of digital sources has increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources.
AB - This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. Over this same period, however, the availability of digital sources has increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004726710
DO - 10.1163/9789004726710
M3 - Book
SN - 978-90-04-72669-7
T3 - Biography Studies
BT - Biography Across the Digitized Globe
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden/Boston
ER -