Janet L. Nelson

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson (Dame Jinty Nelson), DBE, FBA (born 1942), is a British historian. She is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. She was educated at Keswick School, Cumbria and at Newnham College, Cambridge where she earned her BA in 1964 and her PhD in 1967 She was appointed a Lecturer at King’s College, London in 1970, promoted to Reader in 1987 and became a Professor and Director of their Centre for Late A... more

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson (Dame Jinty Nelson), DBE, FBA (born 1942), is a British historian. She is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. She was educated at Keswick School, Cumbria and at Newnham College, Cambridge where she earned her BA in 1964 and her PhD in 1967 She was appointed a Lecturer at King’s College, London in 1970, promoted to Reader in 1987 and became a Professor and Director of their Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies in 1994, retiring in 2000. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1982 and served as President 2000–04; She was a Vice-President of the British Academy, 1999–2001. He has Honorary DLitts from the University of East Anglia (2004) and St Andrews University (2007). 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... less