Rosalind Love (born 29 June 1966) is a British historian,

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, and academic. She has been a

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Robinson College, Cambridge Robinson College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1977, it is one of the newest Oxbridge colleges and is unique in having been intended, from its inception, for both ...

since 1993, and

Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. The first chair was elected in 1878, when a gift endowed in 1867 by Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Angl ...

in the

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who i ...

at the

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since 2019. She is an editorial board member of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies, an imprint of

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, an editor for the

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imprint Oxford Medieval Texts, and the publications secretary for the

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Scholarship

Love has published on Anglo-Latin medieval hagiography (saints' lives) and chronicle writing. With

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.< ...

, she examined the ''Vita Ædwardi regis'', an 11th-century text, which gives an account of the reign of

King Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. Edward was the son of Æthe ...

Personal life

Love was born on 29 June 1966 in

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, Gloucestershire, England. She has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.

Selected works

* * * Love, Rosalind (2005). "The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by

Goscelin Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (or Goscelin of Canterbury, born c. 1040, died in or after 1106) was a Benedictine hagiographical writer. He was a Fleming or Brabantian by birth and became a monk of St Bertin's at Saint-Omer before travelling to Englan ...

of Saint-Bertin: a New Translation with introduction, appendix and notes". In Barker, Katherine; Hinton, David; Hunt, Alan (eds.). St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. pp. 98–123. ISBN 978-1-84217-175-2. * Love, Rosalind C. and Simon Keynes (2009) "Earl Godwine's ship". Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 38, pp. 185 - 223 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675109990044

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Love, Rosalind Living people Medievalists Book editors Elrington and Bosworth Professors of Anglo-Saxon Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge 1966 births