Elisabeth van Houts
Dutch-British historian (born 1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van Houts, Lady Baker (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]