birth_date: 1942-03-28 00:00:00
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name: Janet L. Nelson
about: See also works published as Jinty NelsonDame Janet (Jinty) Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.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.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. The 'Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching &amp; Supervision in History' was established by the Royal Hist See also works published as Jinty NelsonDame Janet (Jinty) Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.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.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. The 'Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching &amp; Supervision in History' was established by the Royal Historical Society in January 2018.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 2000-10 she co-directed, with Simon Keynes (of Cambridge University), the AHRC-funded project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. She has long been working on the book "King and Emperor", a biography of Charlemagne. ...more