Beryl Smalley

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, which laid the foundations of modern study of the Medieval popular Bible.

She was a tutor in history (1943 to 1969) and Vice-Principal (1957 to 1969) of St Hilda's College, Oxford.[1] One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.[2]

Beryl Smalley was born 3 June 1905 at Cheadle in Cheshire to Edgar Smalley and Contance Lilian Bowman. At 13, she was sent to Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1923, she won a scholarship to St Hildas College, Oxford. She studied there from 1924-1927 as Agnes Ley's pupil. After graduating, she was research assistant to Powicke. In 1929, she went to Paris to study and converted to Catholicism. In 1930, she obtained her doctorate and, in 1931, started to teach at Royal Holloway College. In 1935, she became a research fellow at Girton. Later, she was a temporary assistant in Western manuscripts at the Boolean Library and, in 1944, became tutor in history at St Hilda's College. She was a member of the Marxist Historians Group until 1956, when most members of the group left. Later she delivered the Ford Lectures on Thomas Becket.

Honours

In 1963, Smalley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.[1] In 1985, a Festschrift was published in her honour. It was titled Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in Memory of Beryl Smalley, edited by Katherine Walsh and Diana Wood.[3]

Selected works

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  • The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, 1940 (3rd ed. 1983)
  • Historians in the Middle Ages, 1974, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-684-14121-3
  • The Becket Conflict and the Schools: a Study of Intellectuals in Politics in the Twelfth Century, 1973
  • The Gospels in the Schools, c. 1100 – c. 12801985
  • Studies in Medieval Thought and Learning from Abelard to Wyclif
  • English friars and antiquity in the early fourteenth century, 1960
  • Exempla in the commentaries of Stephen Langton, 1933
  • Medieval exegesis of wisdom literature : essays by Beryl Smalley; edited by Roland E. Murphy. 1986
  • Studies in medieval thought and learning : from Abelard to Wyclif, 1981

References

  1. 1 2 "SMALLEY, Beryl". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Jennifer Loach - obituary". The Times. 5 May 1995.
  3. ↑ Walsh, Katherine; Wood, Diana, eds. (1985). The Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in Memory of Beryl Smalley. Oxford: Ecclesiastical History Society. ISBN 978-0631142751.


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