Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : a celebration of professor Hans Renders -- Introduction : turn every electronic page? Biographers confront the digital turn / David Veltman and Daniel R. Meister -- Microhistorical approaches and playing with the scales of history : a microbiography of historians' biographical methods / Melanie Nolan -- Microhistory and everyday life experience in a biographical writing : representation in history / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon -- The scandalous Abbé Rioust : the multiple careers of an exiled (ex-)priest in the era of revolutions / Jeffrey Tyssens -- Transnationally informed biography : finding Abraham Kuyper in the dissemination of a South African Christian-nationalist / Jacques Pienaar -- Twisting : loss, illness, and dying in words what I have taken from Hans Renders / Marlene Kadar -- Facts and signs of life : bits, biographies, life writing, biobits, and the environment / Craig Howes -- "Creating science from one's own biography" : networks and clues in the archival afterlife of Helmuth Plessner / David Veltman -- Traces and clues in a fairytale : research based on a "weird" historical source / Jana Wohlmuth Markupová -- The golden age is over : AI and the future of biography / Nigel Hamilton -- Dissecting "a funny thing" : taste, biography, and the case of Nanne Tepper / Lodewijk Verduin -- In retrospective : the concept of subject agency according to Virginia Woolf's "the new biography" / Maryam Thirriard -- Conclusion : biography across borders : broadening biography studies / Daniel R. Meister.

"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. During the last two decades, however, the availability of digital sources 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"-- Provided by publisher.