David Bates (historian)

He has written many books and articles during his career, including Normandy before 1066 (1982), Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 (1998), The Normans and Empire (2013), William the Conqueror (2016) in the Yale English Monarchs series (translated into French as Guillaume le Conquérant (2019)) and La Tapisserie de Bayeux (co-authored with Xavier Barral i Altet) (2019).

All of his books are based on extensive researches in the archives and libraries in France and Normandy that have uncovered a lot of new or inadequately known material, some of it published in Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I.

He retains an interest in the interpretation of charters as literary sources and is currently working on a book on William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, bishop of Bayeux and further innovative approaches to the history of northern Europe during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

In addition to what is mentioned above, he was, for example, the founding editor of the Longmans/Pearson Medieval World series from 1987 to 2001, thereby encouraging publications by many other scholars.

He is currently working on more publications relating to the history of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries.