Janet Bately Explained
Janet Bately is a British academic, the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emerita of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London since 1977.[1] She has a bachelor's degree from Somerville College, Oxford and began her academic career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College.[2] Her research interests include Old English and Middle English literatures, the court of King Alfred the Great, and early modern bilingual dictionaries.[3] [4]
Recognition
Bately was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and a CBE in 2000.[2] She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.[5] In 1997, Bately was honoured with a Festschrift, Alfred the Wise, edited by Jane Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, and Malcolm Godden to celebrate her 65th birthday.[6]
Selected works
- Bately, Janet M. "Old English Prose before and during the Reign of Alfred." Anglo-Saxon England 17 (1988): 93-138.
- Bately, Janet. "Did King Alfred actually translate anything? The integrity of the Alfredian canon revisited." Medium Ævum 78.2 (2009): 189-215.
- Bately, Janet M. The Literary Prose of King Alfred's Reign: Translation or Transformation?. Routledge, 2019.
- Bately, Janet M. "The Old English Orosius." A Companion to Alfred the Great. Brill, 2015. 297-343.
- Bately, Janet. "BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES OF THE RENAISSANCE AND EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY1." The Oxford history of English lexicography 1 (2008): 41-64.
Notes and References
- Web site: Professor Janet Bately CBE, FBA, FRSA, FKC. 2021-12-15. www.kcl.ac.uk.
- Web site: Professor Janet Bately | British Academy . Britac.ac.uk . 9 April 2015 . 24 May 2017.
- Hayward . Paul Antony . 1997-11-01 . 97.11.03, Roberts, et al., eds., Alfred the Wise . The Medieval Review . en . 1096-746X.
- Web site: Professor Janet Bately CBE, FBA, FRSA, FKC. 2021-12-15. www.kcl.ac.uk.
- Web site: About Somerville . Professor Janet Bately — Somerville College Oxford . Some.ox.ac.uk . 24 May 2017.
- Book: Alfred the Wise : studies in honour of Janet Bately on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday . 1997 . D.S. Brewer . Jane Annette Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, Malcolm Godden, Janet Bately . 0-85991-515-8 . Woodbridge, Suffolk . 36083532.
