Janet L. Nelson

Nelson assembles an astonishingly rich picture from the most unrewarding of texts. The way she puzzles out probable facts and motivations is a joy to witness ... The narrative voice emerges as that of a patient, inq ...

Bettina Bildhauer, 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 l ...

Chris Wickham, 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.

Helen Castor, BBC History Magazine

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 l ...

Chris Wickham, 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.

Helen Castor, BBC History Magazine

Nelson assembles an astonishingly rich picture from the most unrewarding of texts. The way she puzzles out probable facts and motivations is a joy to witness ... The narrative voice emerges as that of a patient, inq ...

Bettina Bildhauer, 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 l ...

Chris Wickham, 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.

Helen Castor, BBC History Magazine