Skip navigation
London Review of Books London Review Bookshop

Articles marked subscriber-only content are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here.

J.L. Nelson

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

Selected bibliography

  • The Medieval World by Peter Linehan and J.L. Nelson (2001)
  • Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald, and Others (1999)
  • Charles the Bald (1992)
  • Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (1986)

Search the web for J.L. Nelson: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia

In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Eastern Promises · 29 November 2007

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

subscriber-only content Go away and learn · 15 April 2004

  • Charlemagne by Matthias Becher, translated by David Bachrach

subscriber-only content A Sense of Humour in Daddy’s Presence · 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 · 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! · 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

From the LRB letters page