User:Richard j. Kelly

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Richard J. Kelly teaches and researches at the Faculty of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan. A graduate of the National University of Ireland, he specializes in the study of medieval literatures, in particular the Christian prose and poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period (c. AD 449 – 1100). He is the author of a number of books as well as several articles and papers in academic books and journals, ranging in content from medieval literature, culture, art and manuscripts to linguistics and textual transmission. His most significant recent book is his edition and translation of The Blickling Homilies, which is one of the earliest extant examples of prose writing in English; the MS is housed at the Firestone Library at Princeton University in the U.S.A. He has a keen interest in issues of social justice and how they have been dealt with and articulated down through the ages to the present time. The is the author of a recent book on Human Rights issues, titled You're History: How People Make the Difference, which has a powerful Foreword by Sir. Bob Geldof.