User:Richard j. Kelly

Richard J. Kelly is a Professor at the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies at Kinki University, Osaka, Japan. 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 in academic books and journals, ranging in content from medieval literature, culture, art and manuscripts to linguistics and textual transmission. His most significant recent books are his edition and translation of The Blickling Homilies and The Blickling Concordance, 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.