title: Judith Jesch
text: # Judith Jesch
  
  Judith Jesch FRHistS, FSA, FSA Scot (born 1954) is professor of Viking Age studies at the University of Nottingham. Jesch is chair of the international Runic Advisory Group and president of the English Place-Name Society.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Jesch received her advanced education at Durham University and University College London. As a student at Durham in 1973 she co-wrote an article for Palatinate that accused the university of failing to attract candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds, and suggested that Durham was by now seen as a 'finishing school' for the socially privileged.
  
  She was keynote speaker at the 2015 Norse in the North Conference, and is the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age (CSVA)
  
  She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * Women in the Viking Age. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 1991. ISBN 978-0-85115-360-5.
  * Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Boydell & Brewer. 1 January 2001. ISBN 978-0-85115-826-6.
  * Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity. Brepols, 2012. (Edited with K. Zilmer) ISBN 9782503542942
  * Viking Poetry of Love and War. The British Museum Press, 2013. ISBN 9780714128306
  * "Earl Rögnvaldr of Orkney: A Poet of the Viking Diaspora", Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 4, 2013, pp. 154–60.
  * "Runes and Words: Runic Lexicography in Context", Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies. 4, 77-100, 2013.
  * The Viking Diaspora. Taylor & Francis. 5 June 2015. ISBN 978-1-317-48253-6.
  
  ### Edited
  
  * Judith Jesch, ed. (1 July 2012). The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-728-2.
  