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.
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 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.
[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.