Janet Bately

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Janet Bately
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineOld English literature, Middle English literature
InstitutionsKing's College London

Janet Bately

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

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

  • 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

  1. ^ a b "Professor Janet Bately CBE, FBA, FRSA, FKC". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Janet Bately | British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  3. ISSN 1096-746X
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  4. ^ About Somerville. "Professor Janet Bately — Somerville College Oxford". Some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  5. OCLC 36083532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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