Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s College London, and the first female president of the Royal ...

Janet Heath was born Nov. 9, 1935, in Sparta and graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse. In 1956, she married her high school sweetheart, Orie Nelson. In Lacrosse, Jan worked for the ...