Rosalind Love

Summary

Rosalind Claire Love (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.

Rosalind Love
Born (1966-06-29) 29 June 1966 (age 57)
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

Early life and education edit

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 edit

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]

Love is an editorial board member of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies, an imprint of De Gruyter,[8] an editor for the Oxford University Press imprint Oxford Medieval Texts,[9] and the publications secretary for the Henry Bradshaw Society.[10]

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.

Personal life edit

Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.[1][11]

Selected works edit

  • 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 edit

  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. ^ "Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies".
  9. ^ "Oxford Medieval Texts - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  10. ^ "People". Henry Bradshaw Society. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Canon Nick Moir". St Andrew's Church, Chesterton. Retrieved 26 February 2021.