Henrietta Leyser
Henrietta Leyser History of women | |
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Henrietta Leyser England, in particular the role of women.
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
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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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.
Select bibliography
- (1984) Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe, 1000-1150, ISBN 0333325826
- (1995) Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500, ISBN 1842126210
- (2001) co-edited with Richard Gameson, Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting. New York: Oxford University Press.
- (2005) co-edited with Samuel Fanous, Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth Century Holy Woman, London & New York: Routledge,
- (2015) Beda: A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede, Head of Zeus, ISBN 9781781853870
- (2016) A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons, I.B. Tauris Short Histories, ISBN 9781780766003
References
- ^ St Peter's staff page Archived 12 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Henrietta Leyser – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies". Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ Toronto, 3rd floor; M5s 2c7416-978-4884, On. "Henrietta Leyser | Centre for Medieval Studies". Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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- ^ "Karl Leyser (1920–1992)" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 599–324. 1997.
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