Janet Bately

Janet Bately CBE FBA FRSA FKC is a British academic, the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emerita of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London since 1977.^[1] She has a bachelor's degree from Somerville College, Oxford and began her academic career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College.^[2] Her research interests include Old English and Middle English literatures, the court of King Alfred the Great, and early modern bilingual dictionaries.^{[3] [1]}

Bately was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and a CBE in 2000.^[2] She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.^[4] In 1997, Bately was honoured with a Festschrift, Alfred the Wise, edited by Jane Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, and Malcolm Godden to celebrate her 65th birthday.^[5]

• 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.

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