Henrietta Leyser

This article is about the historian. For the plant biologist, see Ottoline Leyser.

Henrietta Leyser
Occupation	Historian University of Oxford
Nationality	British
Subject	Middle Ages History of women

Henrietta Leyser is an English historian, specialising on the history of medieval England, in particular the role of women. She is an emeritus fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.^[1]

Leyser has contributed biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Select bibliography

(1984) Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe, 1000-1150, Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-32582-6
(1995) Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 1-84212-621-0

With Samuel Fanous (joint editors):

(2005) Christina of Markyate ; A Twelfth Century Holy Woman, London & New York: Routledge,

With Richard Gameson (joint editors):

(2001) Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting. New York: Oxford University Press.