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Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, specialising in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and literary biography. She is the author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontė
Brontė

The Bront? sisters , Charlotte Bront? , Emily Bront? and Anne Bront? , were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature....
s, William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
, and medieval tournaments
Tournament (medieval)

A Tournament, or tourney is the name popularly given to chivalry competitions or mock fights of the Middle Ages and Renaissance . It is one of various types of hastiludes....
. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum
Brontė Parsonage Museum

The Bront? Parsonage Museum is maintained by the Bront? Society in honour of the famed Bront? sisters ? Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront? and Anne Bront? ? and is located in Haworth, West Yorkshire, an area of England covered in much open, expansive moorland....
.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
 in medieval history. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford
University of Bradford

The University of Bradford is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Formed from a technical college in 1966, there are three campuses: the main campus, located on Richmond Road, the School of Health, on Trinity Road, and the School of Management, at Emm Lane....
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Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, specialising in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and literary biography. She is the author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontė
Brontė

The Bront? sisters , Charlotte Bront? , Emily Bront? and Anne Bront? , were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature....
s, William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
, and medieval tournaments
Tournament (medieval)

A Tournament, or tourney is the name popularly given to chivalry competitions or mock fights of the Middle Ages and Renaissance . It is one of various types of hastiludes....
. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum
Brontė Parsonage Museum

The Bront? Parsonage Museum is maintained by the Bront? Society in honour of the famed Bront? sisters ? Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront? and Anne Bront? ? and is located in Haworth, West Yorkshire, an area of England covered in much open, expansive moorland....
.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
 in medieval history. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford
University of Bradford

The University of Bradford is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Formed from a technical college in 1966, there are three campuses: the main campus, located on Richmond Road, the School of Health, on Trinity Road, and the School of Management, at Emm Lane....
. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior Literature organisation in United Kingdom". It was founded in 1820 by George IV of the United Kingdom, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent"....
.

Selected works

  • The Brontės: Selected Poems
  • (1986) The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press
    Boydell & Brewer

    Boydell & Brewer was formed in 1978. It merged two companies, Boydell Press and D.S. Brewer, whose founders, Richard Barber and Derek Brewer, were themselves scholars - Brewer a Chaucer specialist and Lecturer in English at University of Cambridge , Barber a medieval historian and Arthurian....
     ISBN 0851159427
  • The Brontė Yearbook
  • The Brontės
  • The Brontės: A Life in Letters
  • Charlotte Brontė: Juvenilia 1829-35
  • Wordsworth: A Life
  • Wordsworth: A Life in Letters
  • (2005) Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle, UK: Little, Brown ISBN 034911918X
  • (2007) The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life


Collaborations

  • (1989) with Richard Barber
    Richard Barber

    Richard William Barber is a prominent United Kingdom historian who has been writing and publishing in the field of medieval history and literature ever since his student days....
    :     Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages The Boydell Press. ISBN 0851154700


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