Elisabeth van Houts
{{Short description|Dutch-British historian (born 1952)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van Houts, Lady Baker, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA|FRHistS}} (born 1952) is a Dutch-born British historian specializing in medieval European history. Van Houts was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands. She married historian Sir John Baker in 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/equality-diversity/celebrating-women/elisabeth-van-houts |title=Professor Elisabeth van Houts |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=31 March 2019 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331112413/https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/equality-diversity/celebrating-women/elisabeth-van-houts |url-status=dead }}
She is an honorary professor of medieval European history in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.{{cite web|author=Jake, 3rd Year |url=http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/?id=52 |title=Professor Elisabeth van Houts | Fellows |publisher=Emmanuel College, Cambridge |date=14 December 2016|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
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. She has been an expert panellist on the radio programme In Our Time for the 12th-century Renaissance{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z6vzq |title=BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance |publisher=BBC |date=20 October 2016|accessdate=18 December 2016}} and the Domesday Book.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040llvb |title=BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Domesday Book |publisher=BBC |date=17 April 2014 |accessdate=18 December 2016}} She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-18 |title=The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-in-2024/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=The British Academy}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |ref=none |first=Elisabeth M. C. |last=Van Houts |year=2019 |title=Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 |publisher=Oxford University Press |place=Oxford |isbn=9780198798897}}
- {{cite book |ref=none | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mM6OA8wtPOYC | title=A Social History of England, 900-1200 | publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge | author1=Crick, Julia | authorlink=Julia Crick| author2= van Houts, E. M. C. | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-13950-085-2}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Harper-Bill |first1=Christopher |year=2003 |title=A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World |first2=Elisabeth M. C. |last2=Van Houts |place=Woodbridge |publisher=Boydell|isbn=9780851156736}}
- {{cite book |ref=none|first=Elisabeth Maria Cornelia |last=Van Houts |year=2001 |title=Medieval Memories: men, women and the past in Europe, 700–1300 |publisher=Longman |series=Women and Men in History |isbn=9780582369023}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |first=Elisabeth Maria Cornelia |last=Van Houts |year=2000 |title=The Normans in Europe |publisher=Manchester University Press |place=Manchester |series=Manchester Medieval Sources |isbn=9780719047510}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |first=Elisabeth M. C. |last=Van Houts |year=1999 |title=Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 |publisher=Macmillan |place=Basingstoke |isbn=9780333568583}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |first=Elisabeth M. C. |last=Van Houts |year=1995 |title=Local and Regional Chronicles |publisher=Brepols |place=Turnhout |series=Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental |volume=74 |isbn=2503360009}}
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Category:20th-century Dutch historians
Category:Dutch women historians
Category:21st-century British historians
Category:British women historians
Category:British gender studies academics
Category:Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Category:University of Groningen alumni
Category:Dutch expatriates in England
Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of the British Academy