Henrietta Leyser
{{short description|British historian}}
{{About|the historian|the plant biologist|Ottoline Leyser}}
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| birth_name = Henrietta Bateman
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| children = 4, including Ottoline
| discipline = Historian
| sub_discipline = Middle Ages
History of women
| workplaces = St Peter's College, Oxford
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Henrietta Leyser {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (née Bateman, born 12 June 1941) is an English historian. She is an expert on the history of medieval 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.[http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/staff/69/staff.html?StaffId=9 St Peter's staff page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812221618/http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/staff/69/staff.html?StaffId=9 |date=12 August 2007 }} She joined St Peter's College in 1996 as Supernumerary Fellow in Medieval History, becoming an Official Fellow in 2002 and a Senior Research Fellow in 2008 before retiring in 2011. During her time at the college she additionally served as Tutor for Admissions between 1998 and 2008 and as Tutor for Welfare between 2004 and 2011.{{cite journal |title=Michaelmas Term 2024 |journal=University of Oxford Calendar |date=2024 |page=391 |url=https://unioxfordnexus.sharepoint.com/sites/ADMN-OnlineGazetteIssues/Shared%20Documents/Calendar%20editions/University%20of%20Oxford%20Calendar%20-%20MT2024.pdf?CID=106a9657-beab-441d-9e44-dad5312cb887}}
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.{{Cite web|title=Henrietta Leyser – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies|url=https://pims.ca/people/henrietta-leyser/|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-05-15}} She was a Distinguished Visitor at the Centre of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (January-April 2012).{{Cite web|title=Henrietta Leyser {{!}} Centre for Medieval Studies|url=https://medieval.utoronto.ca/person/henrietta-leyser/|last1=Toronto|first1=3rd floor|last2=M5s 2c7416-978-4884|first2=On|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-15}} She has contributed biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Between 2003 and 2012 Leyser appeared in five editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time, discussing subjects including the East-West Schism, the Concordat of Worms and the life of Gerald of Wales.{{cite web |title=In Our Time, Abelard and Heloise |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9c7 |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=17 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=In Our Time, Gerald of Wales |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n1rbn |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=17 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=In Our Time, The Schism |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054921 |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=17 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=In Our Time, Greyfriars and Blackfriars |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9dz |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=17 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=In Our Time, The Concordat of Worms |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184v2j |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=17 August 2024}}
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).{{Cite journal|last=Van Houts|first=Elisabeth|date=2013-10-01|title=Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400: Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser, ed. Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith|url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/128/534/1189/436251|journal=The English Historical Review|language=en|volume=128|issue=534|pages=1189–1191|doi=10.1093/ehr/cet201|issn=0013-8266|url-access=subscription}}
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,{{cite journal |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/94p599.pdf |title=Karl Leyser (1920–1992) |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=94 |pages=599–324 |date=1997}} 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, Macmillan, {{ISBN|0333325826}}
- (1995) Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, {{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}}
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Category:British women medievalists
Category:Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Category:20th-century English historians
Category:20th-century English women writers
Category:21st-century English historians
Category:21st-century English women writers