Janet L. Nelson
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Professor emerita Janet Nelson DBE, FBA |
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| Born | 28 March 1942 |
| Nationality | British |
| 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 | Historian |
| Sub discipline | Medievalist |
| Institutions | King's College London |
| Main interests | medieval kingship |
Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA (born 28 March 1942) is a British historian. She 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 Reader in 1987, 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, and President of the Royal Historical Society in 2000–04. She has honorary doctorates from the University of East Anglia (2004), St Andrews University (2007), Queen's University Belfast (2009), and the universities of York (2010), Liverpool (2010) and Nottingham (2010).
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. She was working on a biography of Charlemagne, as well as co-directing, with Simon Keynes (of Cambridge University), the AHRC-funded project Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
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