Janet L. Nelson
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Professor Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA (born 1942) is a British academic, scholar and writer at King's College London.
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.
Nelson is authoring a biography of Charlemagne, as well as co-directing, with Simon Keynes (of Cambridge University), the AHRC-funded project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
She has co-edited and/or authored the following:
- 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)
Her biographical study, Charles the Bald her annotated translation of The Annals of St-Bertin and other papers reflect her interest in Frankish kingship and in the Vikings on the Continent, while other papers on Alfred of Wessex address comparable themes in Anglo-Saxon history.
