Rosalind Love

Rosalind Claire Love FBA (born 29 June 1966) is a British historian, medievalist, and academic. She has been a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge since 1993, and Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge since 2019.

Early life and education Love was born on 29 June 1966 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. She was educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, an independent school in Monmouth, Wales. 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.

Academic career In 1993, Love was elected a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. In 2000, she also became a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. 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. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

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

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.

In July 2024, Love was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

Personal life Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.

Selected works