Sarah Rees Jones

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.

Career

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'.

Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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.

Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005.

Select publications

• Rees Jones, S. 1997. The government of medieval York: essays in commemoration of the 1396 royal charter. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.
• Rees Jones, S., Marks, R., and Minnis, A. J., 2000. Courts and regions in medieval Europe. York Medieval Press.
• Rees Jones, S. 2003. Learning and literacy in medieval England and abroad. Brepols.
• Rees Jones, S. 2014. York: the making of a city 1068-1350. Oxford University Press.
• Rees Jones, S. and Watson, S. C. 2016. Christians and Jews in Angevin England: the York Massacre of 1190, narratives and contexts/ York Medieval Press
• Brown, S., Rees Jones, S., and Ayers, T, (eds). 2022. York: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XLII). Routledge.
• Dryburgh, P., and Rees Jones, S., (eds). 2024. Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records’, York Medieval Press

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