Rosalind Love

Rosalind Love
FBA
Born (1966-06-29) 29 June 1966 (age 58)
Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Academic background
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
ThesisThe texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives (1993)
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval literature
Sub-discipline
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.

Early life and education

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]

Academic career

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]

Personal life

Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.[1][13]

Selected works

  • Love, Rosalind C. (1996). Three eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et miracula S. Kenelmi, and Vita S. Rumwoldi. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198205244.
  • Love, Rosalind C. (2004). Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: the hagiography of the female saints of Ely. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 9780198208150.
  • Love, Rosalind C. (2005). "The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: A New Translation with Introduction, Appendix and Notes". In Barker, Katherine; Hunt, Alan (eds.). St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Oxbow Books Limited. pp. 98–123. ISBN 978-1-84217-175-2.
  • Keynes, Simon; Love, Rosalind (2009). "Earl Godwine's ship". Anglo-Saxon England. 38. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 185–223. doi:10.1017/s0263675109990044. ISSN 0263-6751.

References

  1. ^ a b c "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". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic". www.asnc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e "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". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022.
  4. ^ Love, Rosalind Claire (1993). "The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Professor Rosalind C Love". Robinson College. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Dr Rosalind Love". Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon". Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  8. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". British Academy. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies".
  10. ^ "Oxford Medieval Texts - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  11. ^ "People". Henry Bradshaw Society. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  12. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". 18 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Canon Nick Moir". St Andrew's Church, Chesterton. Retrieved 26 February 2021.