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Rosalind Love
Honorific Suffix:FBA
Birth Date: 29 June 1966 df=y
Birth Place:Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Alma Mater:St John's College, Cambridge
Thesis Title:The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284201
Thesis Year:1993
Discipline:Medieval literature

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] 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

Love was born on 29 June 1966 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.[2] 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. 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

In 1993, Love was elected a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.[5] In 2000, she also became a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008 and made Reader in Insular Latin in 2012. 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

Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.[13]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. www.asnc.cam.ac.uk. 2020-02-03.
  2. Web site: 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 . . Oxford University Press . 26 February 2021 . en . 1 December 2020.
  3. Web site: 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 . . Oxford University Press . en . 1 December 2022.
  4. Web site: Love . Rosalind Claire . The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives . E-Thesis Online Service . The British Library Board . 23 February 2023 . 1993.
  5. Web site: Professor Rosalind C Love . Robinson College . 23 February 2023 . en . 27 November 2015.
  6. Web site: Dr Rosalind Love . Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic . University of Cambridge . 23 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924050035/https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/Rosalind.Love/ . 24 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon . Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic . University of Cambridge . 2023-02-23.
  8. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024. 2024-07-20 . British Academy . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
  10. Web site: Oxford Medieval Texts - Oxford University Press. global.oup.com. en. 2020-02-03.
  11. Web site: People. 2016-07-09. Henry Bradshaw Society. en-GB. 2020-02-03.
  12. Web site: 2024-07-18 . The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024 . live.
  13. Web site: Canon Nick Moir . St Andrew's Church, Chesterton . 26 February 2021.

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