Sarah Rees Jones
Sarah Rees Jones | |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA), University of York (PhD) |
| Thesis | Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York (1987) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval history |
| Institutions | University of York |
Sarah Ruth Rees Jones FSA (born 1957) is a British historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and a former director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.[1]
Career[edit]
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'.[2]
Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009.[4] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[5]
She was the principal investigator on the team that discovered the story of Joan of Leeds; a 14th-century nun who faked her own death to leave St. Clement's Nunnery in York to live with a man in Beverley.[6]
Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005.[7]
Select publications[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Sarah Rees Jones, Professor of Medieval History". University of York. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ Rees Jones, S. R. (1987). Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York (PDF) (Thesis). University of York.
- ^ "HTT Trustees". Historic Towns Trust. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Fellows directory - R". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Fellows - R" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ Flood, Alison (11 February 2019). "Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ Sarah Rees Jones at IMDb
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