Henrietta Leyser

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Henrietta Leyser
Born
Henrietta Bateman
Nationality British
Spouse
(m. 1962;died 1992)
Children4, including Ottoline
Academic work
Discipline Historian
Sub-discipline Middle Ages
History of women
Institutions St Peter's College, Oxford

Henrietta Leyser FRHistS is an English historian. She is an expert on the history of medieval England, in particular the role of women.

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Career

Leyser is an emeritus fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [1]

Leyser was W. John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2011-12. [2] She was a Distinguished Visitor at the Centre of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (January-April 2012). [3] She has contributed biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .

In 2011, she received a Festschrift entitled Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400: Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser, edited by her son Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith (Farnham: Ashgate). [4]

She was married to the historian Karl Leyser (1920–92). Their children are Dame Ottoline Leyser, Regius Professor of Botany, Conrad Leyser, also a medieval historian, [5] and circus performer and author Matilda Leyser.

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References

  1. St Peter's staff page Archived 12 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Henrietta Leyser – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies" . Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  3. Toronto, 3rd floor; M5s 2c7416-978-4884, On. "Henrietta Leyser | Centre for Medieval Studies" . Retrieved 15 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Van Houts, Elisabeth (1 October 2013). "Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400: Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser, ed. Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith". The English Historical Review. 128 (534): 1189–1191. doi:10.1093/ehr/cet201. ISSN   0013-8266.
  5. "Karl Leyser (1920–1992)" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 599–324. 1997.