J.L. Nelson

J.L. Nelson teaches medieval history at King’s College London. She is writing a book about Charlemagne.

In the LRB Archive:

• Eastern Promises: The Christian Holy War · 29 November 2007

  • God’s War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman

• Go away and learn: Charlemagne’s Superstate · 15 April 2004

  • Charlemagne by Matthias Becher, translated by David Bachrach

• A Sense of Humour in Daddy’s Presence on Medieval Europe · 5 June 2003

  • The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Patrick Geary
  • Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan

• Catharama: Heretics · 7 June 2001

  • The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
  • The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by René Weis

• What a Woman!: Joan of Arc · 19 October 2000

  • Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
  • Joan of Arc: A Military Leader by Kelly DeVries
  • The Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Karen Sullivan

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