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A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers.

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Janet L. Nelson DBE is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at King's College London, where she taught for many years. She has written and translated widely on early medieval Europe, her books including Charles the Bald (1992), The Frankish World (1996) and Courts, Elites, and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages (2007). She lives in London.

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Nelson assembles an astonishingly rich picture from the most unrewarding of texts. The way she puzzles out probable facts and motivations, based on a complete reading of the existing texts, is a joy to witness ... The narrative voice emerges as that of a patient, inquisitive, incisive and helpful master detective, with funny asides, a beautiful style and sensible politics.
*Times Literary Supplement*

This is a terrific book ... It is lovely to read, in part because it is so lightly written ... One leaves Jinty Nelson's book with the sense that one does, yes, get from it a sense of what Charlemagne was actually like. Which is what biographies are for, and why this is one to read.
*History Today*

An immense achievement - brilliantly learned and profoundly wise, it is as revelatory about the practise of history as it is about the great man himself.
*BBC History Magazine*

Christianity entered a new era in 800 when Charles, King of the Franks, became the first Holy Roman Emperor, and entrenched the faith in European civilisation. His story is told in Janet L Nelson's outstanding King and Emperor.
*The Telegraph*

There have been countless studies of Charlemagne in many languages, but few have been as ambitiously biographical as Nelson's. Historians of early medieval Europe are trained to interpret scattered clues and fragments, however, and Nelson is one of the very best.
*London Review of Books*

An imaginative, deeply thoughtful, often provocative, always important book.
*Geoffrey Koziol, Professor of History at UC Berkeley*

[The author is] a giant in the field, who knows that myths concerning Charlemagne, which began before his corpse grew cold, are difficult to lay to rest
*H-France Review*

This is a remarkable book: at once the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man, and a masterclass in the practice of history from a superlative historian. Janet Nelson's brilliant insight illuminates a world that is both familiar and strange, and full of resonances between past and present. Here - seen through challenging sources, sifted and weighed with wisdom and wit - is everything we can know, twelve centuries on, about the king and emperor called Charlemagne.
*Helen Castor, author of SHE-WOLVES and JOAN OF ARC*

Praise for COURTS, ELITES, AND GENDERED POWER IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: Reconfirms Janet Nelson's role as one of the most important of contemporary voices in both medieval studies and gender history
*Early Medieval Europe*

Professor Dame Janet Nelson has been rather more than just a participant in the recent work on courts, elites and gendered power ... she has been its instigator, or its inspiration.
*English Historical Review*

Praise for CHARLES THE BALD: A work of importance that is sure to be mulled over for many years to come.
*English Historical Review*

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