Robert Bartlett

Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, a CBE, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He grew up in South London, received his university education at Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton, taught earlier at the universities of Edinburgh and Chicago, and has held fellowships in America, Germany, and Israel. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History, as well as Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe, which is featured in his recent Rorotoko interview.