Henrietta Leyser FRHistS is an English historian. She is an expert on the history of medieval England, in particular the role of women.
Henrietta Leyser | |
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Nationality | British |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | Middle Ages History of women |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
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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