Rosalind Love FBA | |
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Born |
Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England | 29 June 1966
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 |
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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.
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]
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]
Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children. [1] [13]
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