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. She married historian Sir John Baker in 2010.
She is an Honorary Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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 and the Domesday Book. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.
Selected publications
- 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
- "Professor Elisabeth van Houts". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Jake, 3rd Year (14 December 2016). "Professor Elisabeth van Houts | Fellows". Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
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: 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