Janet Nelson

Professor emerita
Janet Nelson
DBE, FBA
Born Janet Laughland Muir
(1942-03-28) 28 March 1942
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Spouse(s)
Howard Nelson (m. 1965)
Academic background
Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge
Thesis Rituals of Royal Inauguration in Early Medieval Europe (1967)
Doctoral advisor Walter Ullmann
Academic work
Discipline Historian
Sub-discipline Medievalist
Institutions King's College London
Main interests medieval kingship

Dame Janet (Jinty) Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA (born 28 March 1942)[1] is a British historian. She is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.

Early life

Nelson was educated at Keswick School, Cumbria and at Newnham College, Cambridge where she earned her BA degree in 1964 and her PhD degree in 1967.[2]

Career

She was appointed a lecturer at King's College, London in 1970, promoted to Reader in 1987, to Professor in 1993, and Director of the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies in 1994, retiring in 2007. She was a Vice-President of the British Academy, 2000–01. She was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society, 2000–04.[3] The 'Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching & Supervision in History' was established by the Royal Historical Society in January 2018.[3]

Her research to date has been focused on early medieval Europe, including Anglo-Saxon England. She has published widely on kingship, government, political ideas, religion and ritual, and increasingly on women and gender during this period. She was working on a biography of Charlemagne, as well as co-directing, with Simon Keynes (of Cambridge University), the AHRC-funded project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.

Honours

Nelson has honorary doctorates from the University of East Anglia (2004), St Andrews University (2007),[2] Queen's University Belfast (2009), and the universities of York (2010), Liverpool (2010) and Nottingham (2010).

Works

  • Courts, Elites and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages (Aldershot, 2007)
  • (with P. Wormald) ed., Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World (Cambridge, 2007)
  • ed., Timothy Reuter, Medieval Politics and Modern Mentalities (Cambridge, 2007)
  • (with P. Stafford and J. Martindale) ed., Law, Laity and Solidarities: Essays in Honour of Susan Reynolds (Manchester, 2001)
  • (with P. Linehan) ed.,The Medieval World (London, 2001)
  • (with F. Theuws) ed., Rituals of Power from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Leiden, 2000)
  • Rulers and Ruling Families in Earlier Medieval Europe (London, 1999)
  • The Frankish World (London, 1996)
  • Charles the Bald (London, 1992)
  • Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (London, 1986)

Nelson has also appeared on BBC television and radio, notably as an expert on the Anglo-Saxon Kings in Michael Wood's 2013 series on the subject.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 43, 28 March 2014 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. 1 2 NELSON, Dame Janet Laughland, (Dame Jinty Nelson), Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 Profile, ukwhoswho.com; accessed 3 September 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching & Supervision in History - RHS". RHS. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  4. ↑ BBC Four - King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons. Accessed 21 August 2013
Academic offices
Preceded by
Dr Peter Marshall		 President of the Royal Historical Society
2001–2005		 Succeeded by
Dr Martin Daunton
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.