- Robert Bartlett (historian)
Professor Robert Bartlett (born 1950), MA (Cantab.), DPhil (Oxon.), FRHistS, FBA, FRSE, FSA, is an English
historian andmedievalist .He currently holds the position of Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the
University of St Andrews , inFife ,Scotland . He studied at theUniversity of Oxford , theUniversity of Cambridge andPrinceton University ; he obtained research fellowships at several institutions, including theUniversity of Michigan andGeorg-August University of Göttingen , before working at theUniversity of Edinburgh ,University of Chicago and the University of St Andrews, where he currently resides.He is widely regarded as one of the world's most important practising medieval historians. He is known for his pioneering work "The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350". The latter won the
Wolfson History Prize in 1993. He specializes in medieval colonialism, the cult of saints, and England between the 11th century and the 14th century. He gave the 2007Ford Lectures at Oxford.elect bibliography
* "Gerald of Wales, 1146-1223", (Oxford, 1982)
* "Trial by fire and water : the medieval judicial ordeal" (Oxford, 1986)
* (ed. with Angus MacKay) "Medieval frontier societies
* "The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350" (London, 1993)
* "England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings", (Oxford, 2000)
* (ed.& tr.) "Life and miracles of St Modwenna ", (Oxford, 2002)
* (ed.& tr.) "The miracles of Saint Æbbe of Coldingham and Saint Margaret of Scotland", (Oxford, 2003)
* "The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages", (Princeton, 2005)
* "Gerald of Wales: A Voice of the Middle Ages", (Tempus, 2006) [revised edition of "Gerald of Wales, 1146-1223"]External links
* [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/history/medhist/staff/bart.shtml Profile at St Andrews]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/1484 New York Review of Books]
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