A new article, published in the Society’s journal, Transactions, celebrates the scholarship of ‘Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles’.
The collection, edited by Alice Rio (King’s College London), gathers thirteen contributions by historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to choose their favourite article by her for an event held in Jinty’s memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London.
The chosen articles, arranged in chronological order, range from her 1977 study ‘On the Limits of the Carolingian Renaissance’, published in Studies in Church History, to ‘Charlemagne and Ravenna’, in Ravenna: Its role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange, a chapter in a 2016 collection edited by Jinty and Judith Herrin.
Contributors to this article include: Alice Rio, Stuart Airlie, Kate Cooper, Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, David Ganz, John Gillingham, Peter Heather, Judith Herrin, Henrietta Leyser, Julia M. H. Smith, Rachel Stone, and Ian N. Wood.
As Alice Rio writes in her introduction:
We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these pieces seemed to add up to a useful retrospective on Jinty’s work, its wider context, and its impact on the field over the decades. We hope that, for those who know her work well already, this may be an opportunity to remember some of her classic (and a few less classic) articles, while at the same time serving as an accessible introduction to her research for anyone who knew her without necessarily knowing about her field, as well as for a new and younger generation of readers.
Dame Jinty Nelson FBA (1942-2024) was Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London and President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-2004).
You can read more about Jinty’s contribution to scholarship, and to the Society, in this article, written by her friend, colleague and fellow RHS Council member, Pauline Stafford, published in October 2024.
‘Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles’ is now available as an Open Access article in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. From August 2024, all content published in Transactions is available Open Access with no charge to the author.
The journal’s editors welcome submission of research articles covering all historical topics, chronologies and regions, and commentaries on aspects of historical debate and practice.