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11 Facts About Rosalind Love

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Rosalind Claire Love FBA was born on 29 June 1966 and is a British historian, medievalist, and academic.

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Rosalind Love has been a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge since 1993, and Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge since 2019.

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Rosalind Love was educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, an independent school in Monmouth, Wales.

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Rosalind Love studied classics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984.

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Rosalind Love undertook postgraduate research in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, and submitted her doctoral thesis "The texts, transmission and circulation of some eleventh-century Anglo-Latin saints' lives" in 1993.

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In 1993, Rosalind Love was elected a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.

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Rosalind Love was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008 and made Reader in Insular Latin in 2012.

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Rosalind Love is an editorial board member of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies, an imprint of De Gruyter, an editor for the Oxford University Press imprint Oxford Medieval Texts, and the publications secretary for the Henry Bradshaw Society.

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Rosalind Love has published on Anglo-Latin medieval hagiography and chronicle writing.

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In July 2024 Rosalind Love was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Rosalind Love has been married to Nicholas Moir, an Anglican priest, since 1998, and they have two children.