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David Bates


Born
in The United Kingdom
April 30, 1945

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History, Biography

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David Bates is a historian of Britain and France during the period from the tenth century to the thirteenth century. He has written many books and articles during his career The most important among his books are Normandy before 1066 (1982); Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066-1087 (1998); The Normans and Empire (2013); and a biography of William the Conqueror (2016). The two most recent of these are an argument that seeks to create an analytical framework for the expansion of the Normans in Western Europe and a radical revision of the life of William the Conqueror published in the Yale University Press English Monarchs series.

He was Director of the IHR from 2003 until 2008, a period he regards as an important phas ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 245 ratings · 20 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors
William the Conqueror
3.84 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions
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William the Conqueror
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Normandy Before 1066
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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The Normans and Empire
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East Anglia and its North S...
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Regesta Regum Anglo-Normann...
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England and Normandy in the...
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Writing Medieval Biography,...
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