Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the British Academy. He received his university education at Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton, and has taught at the universities of Edinburgh and Chicago. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History; England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225; and Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. He has also written and presented three television series for the BBC, Inside the Medieval Mind, The Normans, and The Plantagenets.