Simon Keynes

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English academic (born 1952)

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nameSimon Keynes
honorific_suffix
birth_date
birth_placeCambridge, England
occupationAcademic, historian, antiquarian
educationKing's College School, Cambridge
The Leys School
alma_materTrinity College, Cambridge
(BA, PhD, LittD)
disciplineAnglo-Saxon studies
sub_discipline
workplacesUniversity of Cambridge
doctoral_advisorDorothy Whitelock
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| name = Simon Keynes | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Cambridge, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Academic, historian, antiquarian | education = King's College School, Cambridge The Leys School | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD, LittD) | discipline = Anglo-Saxon studies | sub_discipline = | workplaces = University of Cambridge | doctoral_advisor = Dorothy Whitelock Simon Douglas Keynes ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British historian who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College.

Biography

Keynes is the fourth and youngest son of Richard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian, and thus a member of the Keynes family (and, by extension, of the Darwin–Wedgwood family). Two of his elder brothers are the conservationist and author Randal Keynes and the medical scientist and fellow fellow of Trinity Roger Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, grandnephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

He was born in Cambridge and educated at King's College School, The Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was lecturer in Anglo-Saxon History at Cambridge from 1978, reader in Anglo-Saxon History from 1992, and Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, from 1999 until 2019. He has been a fellow of Trinity College since 1976. From 1999 to 2006 he was head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Academy, and sits on various of the latter's committees.

From 1993 to 2004 he was associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Keynes was co-editor of the journal Anglo-Saxon England, but is not listed as one of the editors of its successor journal, Early Medieval England and its Neighbours in 2025.

In 2017, Keynes became the recipient of a Festschrift: Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England. He retired from his professorship on 1 October 2019, and was succeeded by Rosalind Love.

Selected publications

For a full list up to 2017, see 'Publications by Simon Keynes', in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Rory Naismith and David A. Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xv-xxx , .

  • The Diplomas of King Aethelred The Unready (978–1016): A Study in Their Use as Historical Evidence, 1980
  • Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, 1983 (trans., author of intro and notes, with M. Lapidge)
  • Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1991
  • The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester, 1996

Bibliography

  • Oliver Padel, 'Simon Keynes', in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Rory Naismith and David A. Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 18–22 , .

References

References

  1. [http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX2654010404&v=2.1&u=per_dpl&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w Keynes, Simon]. ''The Writers Directory 2008''. Ed. Michelle Kazensky. 23rd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: St. James Press, 2007. 1066. ''Gale Virtual Reference Library''. Accessed 29 November 2010.{{subscription required}}
  2. Trust, HMS Beagle. "Our Team · The HMS BEAGLE PROJECT".
  3. ''[[Who's Who (UK). Who's Who]] 2010'', London, A & C Black (2009), pp 1271–2, {{ISBN. 978-1-4081-1414-8
  4. [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/k/21148/Simon%20Douglas+KEYNES.aspx Keynes entry] in ''[[Debrett's#Debrett's People of Today. Debrett's People of Today]] {{webarchive. link. (15 August 2012 '')
  5. Ed. by Rory Naismith and David A. Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), {{doi. 10.1017/9781316676066, {{ISBN. 9781316676066.
  6. (2 November 2018). "Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon". University of Cambridge.

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