Emeritus professor Mayke de Jong made Fellow of The British Academy
Emeritus professor in Medieval History Mayke de Jong is made a Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy. This year, The British Academy welcomes a total of 85 new Fellows, including 52 UK Fellows, 29 Corresponding Fellows and 4 Honorary Fellows. The academics are selected for their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
Mayke de Jong
Mayke de Jong is emeritus professor of Medieval History and a specialist of the political and religious history of the Early Middle Ages. De Jong has published widely on monastic life, biblical commentary, penance, historiography and political discourse in the Carolingian period (c. 750-900). She retired in May 2016.
De Jong’s most recent monograph is ‘Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World’ (Cambridge UP, 2019; paperback 2020). Together with Prof. Justin Lake she translated the ‘Epitaphium Arsenii’ by Paschasius Radbertus, a translation (with introduction and annotation) that has appeared in May 2020 with Manchester UP as ‘Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius Radbertus and his Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie’.
The British Academy
Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship of over 1600 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas. The Academy is also a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.
Current Fellows include classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill, while previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb.