In this year's Annual Becket Lecture, Professor Elisabeth van Houts will explore archiepiscopal behaviour during the career of Matilda from child bride and widow in Germany and uncrowned queen regnant England to her second widowhood and retirement in Normandy when she championed Thomas Becket.

Professor Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Emmanuel College. She is interested in medieval history and Latin, and has published and lectured extensively on Anglo-Norman history, medieval historiography and literature and the history of gender in the Middle Ages.

This is an in-venue event taking place in the Michael Berry lecture theatre, OS.0.01, in the Old Sessions House. There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm, with the lecture starting at 6pm.