Beryl Smalley was a British historian

Historian

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

, best known for her work, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, originally published around 1940, but revised many times.

She was a tutor in History and former vice-Principal at St Hilda's College, Oxford

St Hilda's College, Oxford

St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.The college was founded in 1893 as a hall for women, and remained an all-women's college until 2006....

. One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there...

.(Times, May 5, 1995)

Works

• The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, 1940 (3rd ed. 1983)
• Historians in the Middle Ages, 1974, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-684-14121-3
• The Becket Conflict and the Schools: a Study of Intellectuals in Politics in the Twelfth Century1973,
• The Gospels in the Schools, c. 1100 – c. 12801985
• Studies in Medieval Thought and Learning from Abelard to Wyclif
• English friars and antiquity in the early fourteenth century, 1960
• Exempla in the commentaries of Stephen Langton, 1933
• Medieval exegesis of wisdom literature : esays by Beryl Smalley; edited by Roland E. Murphy. 1986
• Studies in medieval thought and learning : from Abelard to Wyclif, 1981

Festschrift

• Bible in the medieval world : essays in memory of Beryl Smalley, edited by Katherine Walsh and Diana Wood. Oxford, 1985