Commentarius Rinuccinianus
Dr Janet Fairweather
Vol. IV (Part 2)
Janet Fairweather, a graduate of London University and McMaster University and a former Research Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, has worked freelance since 1977, beginning as a supervisor of Cambridge undergraduates, later concentrating chiefly on research and translation. She is the author of Seneca the Elder (Cambridge 1981) and articles on classical rhetoric, biography and poetry, also a series of programme notes for the Welsh National Opera on the classical background to opera libretti.
Publications and Papers:
As a translator, she has contributed to several international academic projects:
The Church’s Bible, Early Christian Commentating on Scripture, Letters of Thomas Bartholin.
John Nichols, Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I
Tormud Torfaeus, Historia Rerum Norvegicarum.
She was responsible for the version of Cur Deus Homo in Anselm, The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics , 1998) and in 2005 published the first ever translation of the Liber Eliensis.
