Robert Bartlett (historian)
Robert John Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE (born 27 November 1950) is an English historian and medievalist. He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews.
Bartlett was born in Streatham. After attending Battersea Grammar School in London (1962 to 1969), he studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford and Princeton University as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. He obtained research fellowships at several institutions, including the University of Michigan and University of Göttingen, before working at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Chicago and the University of St Andrews, where he currently resides.
He is particularly known for his work The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, which 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 2007 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford. He wrote and presented Inside 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 presented The Normans on the BBC, a documentary series about their wide-ranging impact on Britain, countries of the Mediterranean and as far afield as the Holy Land.[2] In 2014, he presented the BBC documentary series The Plantagenets, about the eponymous royal dynasty.[3]
Select 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)
- Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity (Scotland 2001) Published in 'Journal 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 of Gerald 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)
References
External links
- Professor Robert Bartlett, in Who's Who 2011, online edition
- Profile at St Andrews
- Listing at New York Review of Books
- Inside the Medieval Mind, Open University
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- Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972)
- W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973)
- Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974)
- Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975)
- Nikolaus Pevsner / Norman Stone (1976)
- Denis Mack Smith / Simon Schama (1977)
- Alistair Horne (1978)
- Richard Cobb / Quentin Skinner / Mary Soames (1979)
- R. J. W. Evans / F. S. L. Lyons (1980)
- J. W. Burrow (1981)
- John McManners (1982)
- Martin Gilbert / Kenneth Rose (1983)
- Antonia Fraser / Maurice Keen (1984)
- Richard Davenport-Hines / John Grigg (1985)
- J. H. Elliott / Jonathan Israel (1986)
- Rees Davies / John Pemble (1987)
- no award (1988)
- Richard Evans / Paul Kennedy (1989)
- Richard A. Fletcher / Donald Cameron Watt (1990)
- Colin Platt (1991)
- John Bossy / Alan Bullock (1992)
- Linda Colley / Robert Skidelsky (1993)
- Robert Bartlett / Barbara Harvey (1994)
- Fiona MacCarthy / John C. G. Röhl (1995)
- H. C. G. Matthew (1996)
- Orlando Figes (1997)
- John Brewer / Patricia Hollis (1998)
- Antony Beevor / Amanda Vickery (1999)
- Joanna Bourke / Andrew Roberts (2000)
- Ian Kershaw / Mark Mazower / Roy Porter (2001)
- Barry Cunliffe / Jerry White (2002)
- William Dalrymple / Robert Gildea (2003)
- Frances Harris / Julian Jackson / Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)
- Richard Overy / David Reynolds (2005)
- Evelyn Welch / Chris Wickham (2006)
- Christopher Clark / Vic Gatrell / Adam Tooze (2007)
- John Darwin / Rosemary Hill (2008)
- Mary Beard / Margaret M. McGowan (2009)
- Dominic Lieven / Jonathan Sumption (2010)
- Ruth Harris / Nicholas Thomas (2011)
- Susie Harries / Alexandra Walsham (2012)
- Susan Brigden / Christopher Duggan (2013)
- Cyprian Broodbank / Catherine Merridale (2014)
- Richard Vinen / Alexander Watson (2015)
- Robin Lane Fox / Nikolaus Wachsmann (2016)
- Christopher de Hamel (2017)
- Peter Marshall (2018)
- Mary Fulbrook (2019)
- David Abulafia (2020)
- Sudhir Hazareesingh (2021)
- Clare Jackson (2022)
- Halik Kochanski (2023)