Name Beryl Smalley | Died 1984 | |
Books The Study of the Bible in the Mid, Studies in Medieval Thought, English Friars and Antiquity i, Historians in the Middle A, Storici nel Medioevo | ||
Beryl Smalley, FBA (3 June 1905–6 April 1984) was a British historian and academic. She is best known for her work, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, originally published around 1940, but revised many times.
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She was a tutor in History (1943 to 1969) and vice-principal (1957 to 1969) of St Hilda's College, Oxford. One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.
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In 1963, Smalley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 1985, a Festschrift was published in her honour. It was titled Bible in the medieval world: essays in memory of Beryl Smalley and it was edited by Katherine Walsh and Diana Wood.