Sarah Ruth Rees Jones (born 1957) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. She is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and a former director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

Career

Rees Jones received her PhD in 1987 from the University of York with a thesis titled 'Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York'. Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

on 5 February 2009. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She was the principal investigator on the team that discovered the story of

Joan of Leeds Joan of Leeds or Johannas de Ledes () was an English nun, who, bored with her monastic and enclosed life, at some point in 1318 escaped from St Clement's by York priory to journey to Beverley, where she was accused of living with a man. To esc ...

; a 14th-century nun who faked her own death to leave St. Clement's Nunnery in York to live with a man in

Beverley Beverley is a market town, market and minster (church), minster town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre ...

. Rees Jones appeared on an episode of

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in 2005.

Select publications

*Rees Jones, S. 1997. ''The government of medieval York : essays in commemoration of the 1396 royal charter''. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research. *Rees Jones, S., Marks, R., and Minnis, A. J., 2000. ''Courts and regions in medieval Europe''. York Medieval Press. *Rees Jones, S. 2003. ''Learning and literacy in medieval England and abroad''. Brepols. *Rees Jones, S. 2014. ''York : the making of a city 1068-1350''. Oxford University Press. *Rees Jones, S. and Watson, S. C. 2016. ''Christians and Jews in Angevin England : the York Massacre of 1190, narratives and contexts''/ York Medieval Press *Brown, S., Rees Jones, S., and Ayers, T, (eds). 2022. ''York: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XLII). Routledge. *Dryburgh, P., and Rees Jones, S., (eds). 2024. ''Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records''’, York Medieval Press

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rees Jones, Sarah Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Living people Alumni of the University of York Academics of the University of York British women historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society British medievalists 1957 births Alumni of the University of Oxford