Professor Janet Bately FBA

English Language and Literature

Elected 1990

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1990
Sections: Medieval Studies
Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/people/staff/emeritus/index.aspx

Janet Bately is Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College, London. A student at Somerville College Oxford, she began her academic career at Birkbeck College London, where she was successively Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Reader, moving to King's College, London as Professor of English Language and Literature in 1977. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and made CBE in 2000. Still actively engaged in research, her specialisms are in Old English language and literature, and bilingual dictionaries of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Current post

Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Research Professor

1995 - 1997

King's College London University of London Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature

1977 - 1995

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

1977 -

Publications

Bilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and early 17th centuries, The Oxford History of Lexicography, ed. A.P. Cowie. 2009

Ohthere's Voyages: A late 9th century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context. 2007

The Old English Orosius 1980

The Anglo Saxon chronicle: MS A 1986

The Tanner Bede 1992

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Jackson FBA

The Mongol Empire & its relations with the Catholic West; the Crusades & the Latin East; & the eastern Islamic world in the Middle Ages.

Professor Hector MacQueen FBA

Law Private Law (Contract, Restitution, Tort) Legal History Intellectual Property and Information Law Scots Law Private Law (Property, Equity, Trusts) Private Law (Family, Persons)

Professor Andy Orchard FBA

The languages and literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; Medieval Latin; Old Norse-Icelandic; oral tradition

Professor Janet Bately FBA

Current post

Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Research Professor

1995 - 1997

King's College London University of London Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature

1977 - 1995

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

1977 -

Publications

Bilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and early 17th centuries, The Oxford History of Lexicography, ed. A.P. Cowie. 2009

Ohthere's Voyages: A late 9th century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context. 2007

The Old English Orosius 1980

The Anglo Saxon chronicle: MS A 1986

The Tanner Bede 1992

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Jackson FBA

Professor Hector MacQueen FBA

Professor Andy Orchard FBA

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Professor Janet Bately FBA

Current post

Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Research Professor

1995 - 1997

King's College London University of London Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature

1977 - 1995

King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London

1977 -

Publications

Bilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and early 17th centuries, The Oxford History of Lexicography, ed. A.P. Cowie. 2009

Ohthere's Voyages: A late 9th century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context. 2007

The Old English Orosius 1980

The Anglo Saxon chronicle: MS A 1986

The Tanner Bede 1992

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Jackson FBA

Professor Hector MacQueen FBA

Professor Andy Orchard FBA

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