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Robert John Bartlett,CBE,FBA,FRSE (born 27 November 1950) is an Englishhistorian andmedievalist. He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at theUniversity of St Andrews.

Bartlett was born inStreatham. After attendingBattersea Grammar School in London (1962 to 1969), he studied atPeterhouse, Cambridge,St John's College, Oxford andPrinceton University as aJane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. He obtained research fellowships at several institutions, including theUniversity of Michigan andUniversity of Göttingen, before working at theUniversity of Edinburgh, theUniversity of Chicago and theUniversity of St Andrews, where he currently resides.

He is particularly known for his workThe Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, which won theWolfson 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 theUniversity of Oxford. He wrote and presentedInside The Medieval Mind, a four-part documentary broadcast by the BBC in 2008 as part of a medieval season.^[1]

In 2010, he wrote and presentedThe Normans on the BBC, a documentary series about their wide-ranging impact on Britain, countries of theMediterranean and as far afield as theHoly Land.^[2] In 2014, he presented the BBC documentary seriesThe Plantagenets, about theeponymous royal dynasty.^[3]

• 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)
• Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity (Scotland 2001) Published inJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31:1, Winter 2001
• (ed.& tr.)Life and miracles of St Modwenna, (Oxford, 2002,ISBN 978-0198206064)
• (ed.& tr.)The miracles of Saint Æbbe of Coldingham and Saint Margaret of Scotland, (Oxford, 2003,ISBN 978-0199259229)
• The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages, (Princeton, 2005,ISBN 978-0691117195)
• Gerald of Wales: A Voice of the Middle Ages, (Tempus, 2006,ISBN 978-0752440316) [revised edition ofGerald of Wales, 1146-1223]
• The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (The Wiles Lectures), (Cambridge University Press, 2008,ISBN 978-0521878326)
• Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation, (Princeton University Press, 2013,ISBN 978-0691159133)
• Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 2020,ISBN 978-1-108-49067-2)
• The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films, (Reaktion Books, 2022,ISBN 178914552X)
• History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts, (Cambridge University Press, 2024,ISBN 978-1-009-45715-6)

• Professor Robert Bartlett, in Who's Who 2011, online edition
• Profile at St Andrews
• Listing at New York Review of Books
• Inside the Medieval MindArchived 15 October 2008 at theWayback Machine,Open University

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