Janet Nelson

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson often Jinty Nelson DBE ( born March 28, 1942, born Janet Muir ) is a British historian.

Janet L. Nelson grew up in Blackpool and studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1965 she got married. In 1967 the Ph.D. Walter Ullmann with the work " Rituals of Royal Inauguaration in Early Medieval Europe. From dux populi to Athleta Christi ". Then she accompanied her husband for anthropological field research to China. After returning to the UK she was first in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office operates. In 1970 she was a lecturer in history at King's College London. She remained there until 2008. 1987 she was Reader and 1993 professor of medieval history. Nelson supervised 32 doctoral theses. At King 's College London, she was Director of the Centre for Late Antiques Centre for Late Antiques.

Nelson's research focuses on the Carolingian period. Here, the kingship, the political ideas and rituals are the focus. She has authored numerous publications on early medieval Europe. Their studies ' Society, theodicy and the origins of heresy "(1971) and" Royal saints and early medieval kingship "(1973) they made a larger professional world known. Nelson edited the translation row Manchester Medieval Sources 1991-2009 1991. Submitted it to an annotated translation of the Annals of St. Bertin. In 1992 a biographical study of Charles the Bald. Together with Henrietta Leyser she is the editor of The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Nelson leads with Simon Keynes and Stephen Baxter, the Prosopography of Anglo - Saxon England.

For their research, Nelson was awarded numerous academic honors and memberships. She became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and was there from 1999 to 2001 Vice President. In 2000, she was Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. It was in 1982 a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and had 2000 as the first woman holds the presidency until 2004. She was also President of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Nelson received honorary doctorates from the universities UEA (2004), St Andrews ( 2007), Queen's Belfast ( 2009), York ( 2010), Nottingham and Liverpool ( 2010). 2006 her the rare honor of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded.

Writings

  • Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe. Hambledon, London 1986, ISBN 0-907628-59-1.
  • Charles the Bald. Longman, London 1992, ISBN 0-582-05585-7.
  • The Frankish World. Hambledon, London 1996, ISBN 1-85285-105-8.
  • Rulers and Ruling Families in Earlier Medieval Europe. Ashgate, Aldershot 1999, ISBN 0-86078-802-4.
  • Courts, elites, and gendered power in the early Middle Ages. Charlemagne and others. Ashgate, Aldershot 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-5933-4.
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