Biography/Hagiography
- c. 1124 Vita Anselmi (life of Anselm of Canterbury) by Eadmer
- 1148 Alexiad by Anna Komnene
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“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)