Susan E. Kelly Explained

Susan Elisabeth Kelly is a British medievalist.

Early life and education

Kelly attended Clare College, Cambridge, from 1979 to 1985,^[1] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987.^[2] Her doctorate was awarded for her thesis "The Pre-Conquest History and Archive of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury".^[3]

Career

From 1985 to 1988, Kelly was a Rank Foundation Research Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She was then a British Academy Research Fellow at St Catherine's from 1988 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, she was a researcher in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, before working as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2012.^[1] In the meantime, she was principal editor (from 1998 to 2011) of the British Academy's Anglo-Saxon Charters series; she has authored or co-authored fourteen volumes of charters for the series.^[4] She has been a Marc Fitch Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia since 2015.^{[1] [4]} In 2016, she received the President's Medal from the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences; awarded to up to three people annually, the medal recognises "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences".^[5]

Publications

• "Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word", in Rosamond McKitterick (ed.), The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 36–62.
• "Trading Privileges from Eighth-Century England", Early Medieval Europe, vol. 1, no. 1 (1992), pp. 3–28.
• Charters of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and Minister-in-Thanet, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1995).
• Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1996).
• Charters of Selsey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 6 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1998).
• "Some Forgeries in the Archive of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury", in Fälschungen im Mittelalter. Teil IV: Diplomatische Fälschungen Monumenta Germaniae Historica Schriften, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 347–69.
• Charters of Abingdon Abbey: Part 1, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 7 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000).
• Charters of Abingdon Abbey: Part 2, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 8 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2001).
• Charters of St Paul's, London, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2004).
• Charters of Malmsbury Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 11 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2006).
• "Lyminge Minster and Its Early Charters" in Simon D. Keynes and Alfred P. Smyth (eds), Anglo-Saxons: Studies presented to Cyril Roy Hart (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), pp. 98–113.
• Charters of Bath and Wells, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 13 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007).
• "Reculver Minster and Its Early Charters", in J. Barrow and A. Wareham (eds.), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 67–82.
• "An Early Minister at Eynsham, Oxfordshire", in O. J. Padel and D. Parsons (eds), A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling (Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2008), pp. 79–86.
• "King Æthelwulf’s Decimations", Anglo Saxon, vol. 1, pp. 285–317.
• Charters of Peterborough Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 14 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2009).
• Charters of Glastonbury Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 15 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012).
• (with N. P. Brooks) Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury: Part 1, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 17 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013).
• (with N. P. Brooks) Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury: Part 2, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013).
• Charters of Chertsey Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 19 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2015).
• Charters of Barking Abbey and Waltham Holy Cross, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 20 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2021).
• "Worcester's Own History: an Account of the Foundation of the See and a Summary of Benefactions, AD 680-1093", in Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman (eds), Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester c. 1050–c.1150 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2022), pp. 121–149.

Notes and References

1. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/charters-of-barking-abbey-and-waltham-holy-cross-9780197266885?cc=gb&lang=en&# "Charters of Barking Abbey and Waltham Cross"
2. Cambridge University List of Members (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 429.
3. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21428191870003606 "The Pre-Conquest History and Archive of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury"
4. https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/susan-kelly "Dr Susan Kelly"
5. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-2016-prize-and-medal-winners/ "British Academy Announces 2016 Prizes and Medal Winners"