Henrietta Leyser MA, BLitt, FRHistS
Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford
Publications include Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in the Western Europe (1984); Medieval Women (1995); ‘Piety, religion and the Church’ in N. Saul, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (1997); (as co-editor and contributor) Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages (2001); ‘Women and the word of God’, in D. Wood (ed.), Women and Religion in Medieval England (2003); and (as co-editor and contributor) Christina of Markyate (2005).
Research and teaching interests include the history of piety, cultural identities of the British Isles and the history of women.
