Henrietta Leyser FRHistS (née Bateman) is an English historian.
[2] Leyser was W. John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2011-12.
[3] She was a Distinguished Visitor at the Centre of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (January-April 2012).
Between 2003 and 2012 Leyser appeared in five editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time, discussing subjects including the East-West Schism, the Concordat of Worms and the life of Gerald of Wales.
[5][6][7][8][9] In 2011, she received a Festschrift entitled Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400: Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser, edited by her son Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith (Farnham: Ashgate).