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David Bates

David Bates is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He gave the Ford Lectures in the University of Oxford in 2010 and has a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Caen-Normandie. His most recent books are The Normans and Empire (2013), William the Conqueror (2016; French translation, 2018), and (with Xavier Barral i Altet), La Tapisserie de Bayeux (2019), awarded the Prix du Livre d'Art by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires.