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'''Robert Bartlett''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] (born 27 November 1950) is an English [[historian]] and [[medievalist]].
He currently holds the position of Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History 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]]. He obtained research fellowships at several institutions, including the [[University of Michigan]] and [[Georg-August 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 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.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/medieval/mind.shtml ''Inside the Medieval Mind,'' BBC4]</ref> In 2010, he wrote and presented ''[[The Normans (TV series)|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]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00schjq ''The Normans,'' BBC]</ref> In 2014, he presented the BBC documentary series ''The Plantagenets'' about the [[House of Plantagenet|eponymous royal dynasty]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yrdwc ''The Plantagenets,'' BBC2]</ref>
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