Medieval biography or life-writing is often considered within frameworks established by classical and modern biography. This session discusses medieval life-writing traditions within their literary entanglements. How is the individual life presented, and memorialised, in relation to social, political, intellectual or religious institutions, or communities? Is biography defined by an emphasis on the individual, and how far is this a focus on the self, identity, and emotion? How are tensions negotiated through rhetoric, convention, and style? What narrative models and historiographical sources provided inspiration? How are stories disseminated through transnational intellectual communities and martial networks? Sources include royal and chivalric biographies, hagiographies, obituaries, autobiographies, found alone or within chronicles, histories, and romance.