Sarah Foot (born 1961) is a British early mediaeval historian and currently holds the Regius Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Early Middle Ages is a period in the History of Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500 See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it The Regius Chair of Ecclesiastical History was founded by Queen Victoria in 1842. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the

Educated until 1979 at Withington Girls' School in Manchester, she went up to Cambridge University, joining Newnham College, to study at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, where she was taught by, amongst others, Rosamond McKitterick and Simon Keynes. Withington Girls' School is an independent day school and provides education for girls between the ages of seven and eighteen The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Newnham College is a Women's college in the University of Cambridge. Rosamond McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, LittD, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor

She gained her doctorate in 1990 and was, from 1989 to 1990, research fellow at Gonville and Caius College before becoming a fellow and tutor there. Gonville and Caius College Cambridge is a constituent College of Cambridge University, one of the world's most academically respected institutions In 1993 she took up a lectureship at the University of Sheffield where consequently, in 2001, she was made senior lecturer. The University of Sheffield is a research University, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. In 2004, she was appointed to the newly established chair of Early Medieval History. ^[1]

On 22 February 2007 Queen Elizabeth II appointed Sarah Foot to the Regius Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II ^[2] She is the first woman ever to hold this chair. Postholders are expected to lead research and develop graduate studies within their areas of specialisation. Regius professors are expected to take a leading part in developing the work of the Oxford Theology Faculty. In the past the chair has been held by a number of distinguished scholars. Previous holders of the Chair in Ecclesiastical History include John McManners, Peter Hincliff and Henry Mayr-Harting. The Rev Professor John "Jack" McManners CBE FBA ( December 25, 1916 - November 4, 2006) was a British religious Professor Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford and Lay Canon of Christ The professorship is also annexed to a canonry at Christ Church, although the postholder need only be a lay Church member. A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανωνικος 'relating to a rule' is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christ Church Cathedral is the Cathedral of the Diocese of Oxford, which includes the City of Oxford England, and the surrounding countryside as far At a special ceremony on 6 October 2007 she was installed as Residentiary Canon of the Cathedral. ^[3]

Her main areas of research lie in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly Anglo-Saxon monasteries, women and religion, and the Cistercians. The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of Early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. She also works on the history of the early mediaeval Church and society as well as the invention of the English in historiography, and historical theory. In 2001 she was awarded a major grant to carry out research into the ruined Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Among her current projects are the charters of Bury St Edmunds Abbey and writing a biography of Aethelstan, the first king of all England. A charter is the grant of authority or rights stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified Bury St Edmunds Abbey was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

Sarah Foot is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. It is the premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL is the world’s premier Learned Society for heritage She is currently one of the editors of the Oxford History of Historical Writing.

She has one son and is married to Michael Bentley, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. The University of St Andrews is the oldest University in Scotland and third oldest in the English-speaking world, having been founded between

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Selected publications

• "Where English becomes British: rethinking contexts for Brunanburh," in: Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (eds. ), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, London, Ashgate 2008 ISBN 0-7546-5120-7
• Monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2006. ISBN 0-5218-5946-8
• "Reading Anglo-Saxon charters: Memory, record or story?" in: Elizabeth. M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti (eds. ), Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, Abingdon, Marston 2006. ISBN 2-5035-1828-1
• "Finding the meaning of form: narrative in annals and chronicles" in: Nancy F. Partner (ed. ), Writing Medieval History (Writing History), London, Hodder Arnold 2005. ISBN 0-3408-0845-4
• The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon "nation-state", in: Len Scales and Oliver Zimmer (eds. ), Power and the nation in European history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2005. ISBN 0-5218-4580-7
• "Confronting violence: a medieval perspective on the ethics of historiography", Storia della storiografia 42 (2002), pp. 23-41
• Veiled Women I: the Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing 2000. ISBN 0-7546-0043-2
• Veiled Women II: Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing 2000. ISBN 0-7546-0044-0
• "Remembering, forgetting and inventing: attitudes to the past in England after the First Viking Age", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series 9 (1999), pp. 185-200
• "English People" in: Michael Lapidge et al (eds), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Blackwell 1998, p. 170f. ISBN 0-6311-5565-1
• "The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity before the Norman Conquest," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series 6 (1996), pp. 25-49

See also

• Regius Professor
• University of Sheffield

Regius Professorships are "Royal" Professorships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen The University of Sheffield is a research University, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.

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