Janet Bately
Janet Bately | |
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| Occupation | Academic |
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| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
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| Discipline | Old English literature, Middle English literature |
| Institutions | King's College London |
Janet Bately CBE FBA FRSA FKC 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] [1]
Recognition[edit]
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.[4] 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.[5]
Selected works[edit]
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Professor Janet Bately CBE, FBA, FRSA, FKC". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Professor Janet Bately | British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Hayward, Paul Antony (1 November 1997). "97.11.03, Roberts, et al., eds., Alfred the Wise". The Medieval Review. ISSN 1096-746X.
- ^ About Somerville. "Professor Janet Bately — Somerville College Oxford". Some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Alfred the Wise : studies in honour of Janet Bately on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday. Jane Annette Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, Malcolm Godden, Janet Bately. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer. 1997. ISBN 0-85991-515-8. OCLC 36083532.
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