Barbara Harvey RIP

I was sorry to see yesterday  in the Daily Telegraph the obituary of the distinguished Oxford Medievalist Barbara Harvey, who has died at the age of 97.

The obituary can be read at Barbara Harvey, historian whose Living and Dying in Medieval England revealed monastic eating habits 

Although I was never formally introduced to her she was, until recent years she was a familiar figure in and around central Oxford 

Virtually the last of those very distinguished women medievalists, including Maud Clarke, May McKisack, whom she succeeded at Somerville, and Beryl Smalley, who were distinguished products of the Oxford women’s colleges and History Faculty both before and after the Second World War.

She was also, if I remember aright, a stalwart of St Mary’s in the High

She will be remembered in particular for her meticulous work on the estate and financial records of Westminster Abbey in the later middle ages . as the obituary records.

She was a historian and researcher who has left a great legacy. May she rest in peace.