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Sarah Ruth Rees Jones 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.[1]
Sarah Rees Jones | |
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Born | 1957 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Historian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA), University of York (PhD) |
Thesis | Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York (1987) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Medieval history |
Institutions | University of York |
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'.[2]
Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009.[4] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[5]
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.[6]
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