Question

How would you define historical biography? Please give a short paragraph.

Answer 1

It
defines the historical biography as encompassing both a reconstruction of a hu- man life, and a representation of a human individual. It shows that the historical biography is a genre that verges on a series of genres and disciplines. The history of the historical bi- ography reaches from antiquity to present days, and the genre is characterised by variety and diversity, both in historical outlook, medias, methodology, and in a cornucopia of categories and forms. Different aims, archetypes, and methodologies of the historical biography have developed the genre into a prism for a mulitude of preoccupations, until ‘the biographical turn’ in history during the first decade of the 2000’s augured the genre of the historical bi- ography as an interdisciplinary analytic field in it’s own right, placed in a battlefield of mul- tifarious

Answer 2

The historical biography represents one of many ways of telling history.

It encompasses both the events of a life, the narrative of a life, and the interpretation of it's characteristics. The historical biography represents one of many ways of telling history.