![]() ![]() (2005) co-edited with Samuel Fanous, Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth Century Holy Woman, London & New York: Routledge,.(2001) co-edited with Richard Gameson, Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting.(1995) Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 1842126210.(1984) Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe, 1000-1150, Macmillan, ISBN 0333325826. ![]() ![]() Their children are Dame Ottoline Leyser, Regius Professor of Botany, and Conrad Leyser, also a medieval historian. She was married to the historian Karl Leyser (1920–92). 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). She has contributed biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. She was a Distinguished Visitor at the Centre of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (January-April 2012). John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2011-12. Leyser is an emeritus fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an expert on the history of medieval England, in particular the role of women. Henrietta Leyser FRHistS is an English historian. ![]()
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