Janet Nelson

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Dame Janet Nelson
DBE FRHistS FBA
Born Janet Laughland Muir
(1942-03-28) 28 March 1942 (age 82)
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Other names Jinty Nelson
Spouse(s) Howard Nelson (m. 1965)[1]
Academic background
Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge
Thesis title Rituals of Royal Inauguration in Early Medieval Europe
Thesis year 1967
Doctoral advisor Walter Ullmann
Academic work
Discipline History
Sub discipline Medieval history
Institutions King's College, London
Main interests Medieval kingship

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson DBE FRHistS FBA (born 1942), also known as Jinty Nelson, is a British historian. She is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.

Early life

Born on 28 March 1942[2] in Blackpool,[citation needed] Nelson was educated at Keswick School, Cumbria, and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she received her BA degree in 1964 and her PhD degree in 1967.[3]

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 President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1993–94)[4] and was a Vice-President of the British Academy (2000–01). In 2013 she gave the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History.[5] She was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000–04).[6] The Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching & Supervision in History was established by the Royal Historical Society in January 2018.[6]

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. From 2000 to 2010 she co-directed, with Simon Keynes (of Cambridge University), the AHRC-funded project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.[7] Her book King and Emperor, a biography of Charlemagne, was published in 2019.[8]

Honours

Nelson was appointed a DBE in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of East Anglia (2004),[9] St Andrews (2007),[10] Queen's University Belfast (2009),[11] York (2010),[12] Liverpool (2010)[13] and Nottingham (2010).[14]

Works

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.[17]

References

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  3. 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.
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  17. BBC Four - King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons. Accessed 21 August 2013.

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the Ecclesiastical History Society
1993–1994
Succeeded by
David M. Thompson
Preceded by President of the Royal Historical Society
2001–2005
Succeeded by
Martin Daunton

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