Sarah Rees Jones
{{Short description|British historian}}
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Sarah Ruth Rees Jones {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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.{{cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/honorary/reesjones/ |title=Sarah Rees Jones, Professor of Medieval History |publisher=University of York |accessdate=18 July 2019}}
Career
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'.{{cite thesis |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4273/1/DX081136_1.pdf |author1=Rees Jones, S. R. |date=1987 |title=Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York |publisher=University of York}}
Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust.{{cite web |url=http://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/content/htt-trustees |title=HTT Trustees |publisher=Historic Towns Trust |accessdate=18 July 2019 |archive-date=22 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722031114/http://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/content/htt-trustees |url-status=dead }} She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009.{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/about-us/fellows-directory/R/page/2/#directory |title=Fellows directory - R |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=18 July 2019}} She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{cite web |url=https://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/RHS-Fellows-R.pdf |title=Fellows - R |publisher=Royal Historical Society |accessdate=18 July 2019}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/11/archive-shows-medieval-nun-faked-her-own-death-to-escape-convent |title=Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent |work=The Guardian |date=11 February 2019 |author1=Flood, Alison |accessdate=18 July 2019}}
Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005.{{IMDb name|id=3289921}}
Select publications
- 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
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Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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Category:Historians of the University of York
Category:British women historians