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]

• 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.