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 university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

since 1977. She has a bachelor's degree from

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

and began her academic career as a lecturer at

Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' ...

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

King Alfred the Great Alfred the Great ( ; – 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 both died when Alf ...

, and early modern bilingual dictionaries.

Recognition

Bately was elected Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies 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 sa ...

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. Biography From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B. ...

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 Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts {{UK-academic-bio-stub