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Janet Bately

b. 1932

British Academic

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About Janet Bately

Born 1932. Janet Bately is a medievalist and scholar of English.

Janet Bately is a British academic, the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emerita of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London since 1977. She has a bachelor's degree from Somerville College, Oxford and began her academic career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College. Her research interests include Old English and Middle English literatures, the court of King Alfred the Great, and early modern bilingual dictionaries. 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.

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.

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Born
1932
Birth century
Education
Somerville College
Employers
King's College London
Awards
Fellow of the British Academy; Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Also known as
Janet M. Bately

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British Academic

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Janet Bately is a medievalist and scholar of English.

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