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Audrey Lilian Meaney (born 1931) is an archaeologist and historian specialising in the study of Anglo-Saxon England. She has published several books on the subject, including ''Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites'' (1964) and ''Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones'' (1981). ==Biography== Meaney was born in England, and took a BA in English at Oxford.〔Sybil Jack, 'On a Personal Note',''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 9–10.〕 In 1955, she was appointed as Carlisle Research Student at Girton College, Cambridge, to undertake her PhD in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (completed in 1959), entitled ''A Correlation of Literary and Archaeological Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Heathenism''. This established Meaney's interdisciplinary approach to early medieval history, which is noteworthy for its combination of archaeological and textual sources.〔Sue Spinks, 'Audrey Meaney', ''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 5–8.〕 On finishing her PhD, Meaney moved to Australia, to the English Department at the University of New England; 'in the interests of her marriage'〔Sybil Jack, 'On a Personal Note',''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 9–10.〕 she moved to Sydney, taking temporary academic positions there until, in 1968, she was appointed to the recently formed Macquarie University, where she taught until her retirement in 1989, balancing the requirements of work with those of motherhood.〔Sue Spinks, 'Audrey Meaney', ''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 5–8.〕 In 1984, she became the first Macquarie academic to be elected as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. According to Di Yerbury, : Her contribution to Macquarie University extended deep into its fabric and well-being. She was very influential in thcearly development of the new University's teaching programs. She was active in several committees, and took on the responsibilities of Acting Head of the School of English and Linguistics. She quiedy but persistently promoted the role of women and women's studies. Indeed, her interest in the role of women has been a dominant theme in her research into Anglo-Saxon culture, removing yet another layer of invisibility over women's place in history.〔Di Yerbury, 'Foreword', ''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 1–3.〕 Meaney took a leading role in founding the Sydney Medieval and Renaissance Group and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. On her retirement, she moved to Cambridge.〔Sybil Jack, 'On a Personal Note',''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 9–10.〕 Meaney produced ''A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites'', published by George Allen & Unwin in 1964 . Asserting that it was "in intention exhaustive up to the end of 1960", she noted that she had not included later discoveries due to her residence in Sydney. While teaching in Australia, Meaney returned frequently to the UK to undertake excavations.〔Sybil Jack, 'On a Personal Note',''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 9–10.〕 and 1970 saw her publication, jointly with Sonia Hawkes, of the excavation report for ''Two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Winnall, Winchester, Hampshire''.〔Audrey L. Meaney and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, ''Two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Winnall, Winchester, Hampshire'', Monograph series (Society for Medieval Archaeology), 4 (London: Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1970), ISBN 0902216015.〕 The 1980s saw Meaney shifting her focus from archaeology to written texts, developing her work on amulets in an influential series of articles on Anglo-Saxon medicine which have made her one of the most important commentators on the history of early medieval Western medicine.〔Prominent studies include: A. L. Meaney, ‘Variant Versions of Old English Medical Remedies and the Compilation of Bald’s Leechbook’, ''Anglo-Saxon England'', 13 (1984), 235–68; Audrey L. Meaney, ‘The Anglo-Saxon View of the Causes of Illness’, in ''Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture'', ed. by Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall and David Klausner (Toronto, 1992), pp. 12–33; Audrey Meaney, 'The Practice of Medicine in England about the Year 1000', ''Social History of Medicine'', 13 (2000), 221–37.〕 A detailed list of Meaney's publications up to around 1992 was provided by Spinks.〔Sue Spinks, 'Audrey Meaney', ''Parergon'', 10 (1992), 5–8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Audrey Meaney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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