Rosalind Love
Rosalind Love FBA | |
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| Born | 29 June 1966 Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives (1993) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medieval literature |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | |
Rosalind Claire Love FBA (born 29 June 1966) is a British historian, medievalist, and academic. She has been a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge since 1993,[1][2] and Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge since 2019.
Early life and education
[edit]Love was born on 29 June 1966 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.[1] She was educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, an independent school in Monmouth, Wales.[3] She studied classics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1984.[3] She undertook postgraduate research in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, and submitted her doctoral thesis "The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives" in 1993.[4]
Academic career
[edit]In 1993, Love was elected a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.[3][5] In 2000, she also became a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.[3] She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008 and made Reader in Insular Latin in 2012.[3] She was Head of Department in 2015.[6] In November 2018, it was announced that she would be the next Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, in succession to Simon Keynes: she took up the chair on 1 October 2019.[7] In 2024 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[8]
Love is an editorial board member of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies, an imprint of De Gruyter,[9] an editor for the Oxford University Press imprint Oxford Medieval Texts,[10] and the publications secretary for the Henry Bradshaw Society.[11]
Love has published on Anglo-Latin medieval hagiography (saints' lives) and chronicle writing. With Simon Keynes, she examined the Vita Ædwardi regis, an 11th-century text, which gives an account of the reign of King Edward the Confessor.
In July 2024 Love was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[12]
Personal life
[edit]Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.[1][13]
Selected works
[edit]- Love, Rosalind C. (1996). Three eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et miracula S. Kenelmi, and Vita S. Rumwoldi. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198205244.
- Love, Rosalind C. (2004). Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: the hagiography of the female saints of Ely. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 9780198208150.
- Love, Rosalind C. (2005). "The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: A New Translation with Introduction, Appendix and Notes". In Barker, Katherine; Hunt, Alan (eds.). St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Oxbow Books Limited. pp. 98–123. ISBN 978-1-84217-175-2.
- Keynes, Simon; Love, Rosalind (2009). "Earl Godwine's ship". Anglo-Saxon England. 38. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 185–223. doi:10.1017/s0263675109990044. ISSN 0263-6751.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Love, Prof. Rosalind Claire, (born 29 June 1966), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge, since 2019; Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, since 1993". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic". www.asnc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Love, Prof. Rosalind Claire, (born 29 June 1966), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge, since 2019; Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, since 1993". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022.
- ^ Love, Rosalind Claire (1993). "The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Professor Rosalind C Love". Robinson College. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Dr Rosalind Love". Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon". Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". British Academy. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ "Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies".
- ^ "Oxford Medieval Texts - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "People". Henry Bradshaw Society. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Canon Nick Moir". St Andrew's Church, Chesterton. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
