Elisabeth van Houts

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.[1] She married historian Sir John Baker in 2010.[citation needed]

She is an Honorary Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2]

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.[2] She has been an expert panellist on the radio programme In Our Time for the 12th-century Renaissance[3] and the Domesday Book.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.[5]

  1. ^ "Professor Elisabeth van Houts". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Jake, 3rd Year (14 December 2016). "Professor Elisabeth van Houts | Fellows". Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Retrieved 22 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance". BBC. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Domesday Book". BBC. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  5. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.