Sarah Rees Jones Explained
| Sarah Rees Jones |
| Birth Date: | 1957 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Historian |
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| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford (BA), University of York (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York |
| Thesis Url: | http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4273/1/DX081136_1.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
| Discipline: | History |
| Sub Discipline: | Medieval history |
| Workplaces: | University of York |
Sarah Ruth Rees Jones (born 1957) is a British historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and a former director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.[1]
Career
Rees Jones received her PhD in 1987 from the University of York with a thesis titled 'Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York'.[2]
Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009.[4] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[5]
She was the principal investigator on the team that discovered the story of Joan of Leeds; a 14th-century nun who faked her own death to leave St. Clement's Nunnery in York to live with a man in Beverley.[6]
Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005.
Select publications
- Rees Jones, S. 1997. The government of medieval York : essays in commemoration of the 1396 royal charter. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.
- Rees Jones, S., Marks, R., and Minnis, A. J., 2000. Courts and regions in medieval Europe. York Medieval Press.
- Rees Jones, S. 2003. Learning and literacy in medieval England and abroad. Brepols.
- Rees Jones, S. 2014. York : the making of a city 1068-1350. Oxford University Press.
- Rees Jones, S. and Watson, S. C. 2016. Christians and Jews in Angevin England : the York Massacre of 1190, narratives and contexts/ York Medieval Press
- Brown, S., Rees Jones, S., and Ayers, T, (eds). 2022. York: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XLII). Routledge.
- Dryburgh, P., and Rees Jones, S., (eds). 2024. Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records’, York Medieval Press
Notes and References
- Web site: Sarah Rees Jones, Professor of Medieval History . University of York . 18 July 2019.
- Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York . Rees Jones, S. R. . 1987 . University of York.
- Web site: HTT Trustees . Historic Towns Trust . 18 July 2019.
- Web site: Fellows directory - R . Society of Antiquaries of London . 18 July 2019.
- Web site: Fellows - R . Royal Historical Society . 18 July 2019.
- News: Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent . The Guardian . 11 February 2019 . Flood, Alison . 18 July 2019.
