Archive of Biographical Writings in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

The Archive of Biographical Writings in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (ArchBio) is a work-in-progress and experimental space devoted to life writing produced in the Iberian Peninsula (1400 - 1600). An online prosopographical database brings together authors (biographers), works (biographies), and biographical subjects (biographees), as well as translators and translations, while an open access and open source collection of texts unveils hundreds of ancients lives. Read more

Authors

Access to the work-in-progress list of authors who wrote a single biography, a collection of lives, or an autobiography.

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Works

Browse the provisional list of biographical works written by different authors, finding individual biographies, collections of lives, and autobiographies.

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Biographees

Consult the list of people (biographees) who deserved a biography, noblemen and women, kings, queens, clergyman, lawyers, among many others.

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