Simon Keynes | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952-09-23)23 September 1952 (age 72) Cambridge, England |
| Occupation(s) | Academic,historian,antiquarian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King's College School, Cambridge The Leys School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA,PhD,LittD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dorothy Whitelock |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anglo-Saxon studies |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Simon Douglas Keynes (/ˈkeɪnz/KAYNZ; born 23 September 1952) is a British historian who isElrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxonemeritus in theDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at theUniversity of Cambridge, and afellow ofTrinity College.[1]
Keynes is the fourth and youngest son ofRichard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian, and thus a member of theKeynes family (and, by extension, of theDarwin–Wedgwood family). Two of his elder brothers are the conservationist and authorRandal Keynes and the medical scientist and fellow fellow of TrinityRoger Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeonGeoffrey Keynes and NobelistEdgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, grandnephew of the economistJohn Maynard Keynes and great-great-grandson ofCharles Darwin.[2]
He was born inCambridge and educated atKing's College School,The Leys School andTrinity College, Cambridge.[3] 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.[1] From 1999 to 2006 he was head of theDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
He is a fellow of theRoyal Historical Society, theSociety of Antiquaries of London and theBritish Academy, and sits on various of the latter's committees.[3][4]
Keynes is also co-editor of the journalAnglo-Saxon England, and is on the editorial board ofCambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. From 1993 to 2004 he was associate editor of theOxford Dictionary of National Biography.[3]
In 2017, Keynes became the recipient of aFestschrift:Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England.[5] He retired from his professorship on 1 October 2019, and was succeeded byRosalind Love.[6]
For a full list up to 2017, see 'Publications by Simon Keynes', inWriting, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. byRory Naismith and David A. Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xv-xxxISBN 9781316676066,doi:10.1017/9781316676066.
