Academic Staff:
Dr Rosalind Love

Contact

Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
Department of ASNC
Faculty of English, 9 West Road , Cambridge CB3 9DP
Office: SR-40 (+44-1223-767316), email: rcl10@cam.ac.uk

Departmental/College Responsibilities

• Teaching in Insular Latin language and literature (Part I, Paper 9; Part II, Paper 9)
• Teaching in Textual Criticism (Part II, Paper 10)
• Supervision of graduate students in Insular Latin and Old English literature
• Convenor of M.Phil.
• Fellow Librarian, Robinson College
• Director of Studies in ASNC for Christ’s, Robinson and Sidney Sussex College
• Women’s tutor, Robinson College

Academic Interests (teaching and research)

Insular Latin literature; the sources for Anglo-Saxon literary culture; Insular Latin hagiography, particularly in the eleventh century; the Biblical commentaries of Bede

• Co-Investigator, Boethius in Early Medieval Europe (Leverhulme funded) Oct 2007-Sept 2012
• Member of the Management Committee of Fontes Anglo-Saxonici, and Director for Anglo-Latin
• Council member of the Henry Bradshaw Society and Publications secretary
• General editor, Oxford Medieval Texts
• Member of the editorial board for Anglo-Saxon England
• Director of the ‘Redazione inglese’ for Medievo Latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (Spoleto).

Selected Publications

• 'The Library of the Venerable Bede', in The History of the Book in Britain, vol. I, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge, forthcoming in 2010)
• '"Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!" Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the depiction of female sanctity', in The Saintly Feminine, ed. P. Szarmach (Kalamazoo, MI, forthcoming 2010)
• 'The World of Latin Learning', in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. S. DeGregorio (Cambridge, forthcoming in 2009)
• 'Bede and John Chrysostom', Journal of Medieval Latin 17 (2007), pp. 72-86
• ‘Frithegod’s of Canterbury ’s Maundy Thursday Hymn’, Anglo-Saxon England 34 (2006), 219-36
• ‘“Et quis me tanto oneri parem faciet?” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Life of St Amelberga’, in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge , ed. K. O’Brien O’Keeffe and A.P.M. Orchard, 2 vols. (Toronto , 2005), II, pp.232-52
• ‘The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’, in St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Essays to Celebrate the Millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998, ed. K. Barker, D.A. Hinton and A. Hunt (Oxford , 2005), pp. 98-123
• Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford , 2004)
• M. Lapidge and R.C. Love, ‘ England and Wales (600-1550)’, in Hagiographies: histoire internationalede la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire, en Occident, des origines à 1500, ed. G. Philippart (Turnhout, Brepols, 2001), vol. III, pp. 1-120
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici (electronic publications on the on-line Database): 797 entries on the sources of the Anglo-Saxon charters (1999); 2326 entries on the sources of Anglo-Latin Hagiography (1999-2000), 1100 entries on the sources of Bede’s Commentary on the Apocalypse, and 600 entries on the sources of Bede’s Commentary on Genesis, Books 1&2 (2000)
• Three Anglo-Latin Saints’ Lives. Vita S. Birini , Vita et Miracula S. Kenelmi, Vita S. Rumwoldi, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, 1996)