Sarah Rees Jones

Sarah Rees Jones FSA
Born	1957
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation	Historian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of York
Thesis	Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York (1987)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval history
Institutions	University of York

Sarah Ruth Rees Jones FSA (born 1957) is a British historian. She is Professor of Medieval History and 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