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Professor Elisabeth Van Houts

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Professor Elisabeth  Van Houts

Honorary Professor of Medieval European History


Subject groups/Research projects

Ancient and Medieval History:

Departments and Institutes

Emmanuel College:

Research Supervision

The history of continental Europe and Britain in the central Middle Ages.

Key Publications

  • Gesta Normannorum Ducum. Een studie over de handschriften, de tekst, het Geschiedwerk en het genre (Groningen 1982)
  • Local and Regional Chronicles, Typologie des sources du moyen Age occidental, 74 (Turnhout 1995)
  • The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, ed. and trans., 2 vols (Oxford 1992-5)
  • Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe 900-1200 (London 1999)
  • History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent 1000-1200, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot 1999)
  • The Normans in Europe, Manchester Medieval sources, ed. and trans. (Manchester 2000)
  • Medieval Memories. Men, Women and the Past 700-1300, ed., Women and Men in History ed. (London, 2001)
  • A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World, ed., [with C. Harper-Bill] (Woodbridge, 2003)
  • Exile in the Middle Ages, ed., [with L. Napran], International Medieval REsearch, vol. 13 (Turnhout, 2004)
  • A Social History of England 900-1200, ed., [with J. Crick] (Cambridge, 2011)
  • Medieval Writings on Secular Women, trans. [with P. Skinner], Penguin Classics (London, 2011)

Other Publications

'Conversations amongst monks and nuns, 1000-1200,' Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral communication (Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries, ed. S. Vanderputten (Turnhout, 2011), 267-92

'Intermarriage in eleventh-century England', Normandy and its Neighbours. Essays in Honour of David Bates, ed. D. Crouch and K. Thompson (Turnhout, 2011), [forthcoming]