Elisabeth van Houts
Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van Houts, Lady Baker FBA FRHistS (born 1952) is a Dutch-born British historian specializing in medieval European history. Van Houts was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands.[1] She married historian Sir John Baker in 2010.[citation needed]
She is an Honorary Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2]
Van Houts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1983. She has published and lectured on Anglo-Norman history, medieval historiography and literature and the history of gender in the Middle Ages.[2] She has been an expert panellist on the radio programme In Our Time for the 12th-century Renaissance[3] and the Domesday Book.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. (2019). Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198798897.
- Crick, Julia; van Houts, E. M. C. (2011). A Social History of England, 900-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-13950-085-2.
- Harper-Bill, Christopher; Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. (2003). A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World. Woodbridge: Boydell. ISBN 9780851156736.
- Van Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia (2001). Medieval Memories: men, women and the past in Europe, 700–1300. Women and Men in History. Longman. ISBN 9780582369023.
- Van Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia (2000). The Normans in Europe. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719047510.
- Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. (1999). Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200. Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 9780333568583.
- Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. (1995). Local and Regional Chronicles. Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental. Vol. 74. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 2503360009.
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Elisabeth van Houts". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ a b Jake, 3rd Year (14 December 2016). "Professor Elisabeth van Houts | Fellows". Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance". BBC. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Domesday Book". BBC. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- 1952 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Dutch historians
- Dutch women historians
- 21st-century British historians
- British women historians
- British gender studies academics
- Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- People from Zaanstad
- University of Groningen alumni
- Dutch expatriates in England
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Wives of knights