Janet Bately is a British academic, the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emerita of English Language and Medieval Literature at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

since 1977. She has a bachelor's degree from

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, I ...

and began her academic career as a lecturer at

Birkbeck College , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £4.3 m (2014) , budget = £10 ...

. Her research interests include Old English and Middle English literatures, the court of

King Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who ...

, and early modern bilingual dictionaries.

Recognition

Bately was elected Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

in 1990, and a CBE in 2000. She is an Honorary Fellow of

. In 1997, Bately was honoured with a Festschrift, ''Alfred the Wise'', edited by Jane Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, and

Malcolm Godden Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013. From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in Engli ...

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.

References

Living people Academics of King's College London Fellows of the British Academy Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of King's College London {{UK-academic-bio-stub