Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was born in London in 1950 and went to Battersea Grammar School, then received his university education at Cambridge, Oxford and Princeton. He has taught at the universities of Edinburgh and Chicago and held fellowships at the universities of Michigan, Princeton, and Göttingen.Bartlett has written several books, one of which,The Making of Europe, won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History and has been translated into German, Estonian, Polish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. He has lectured widely, from New Zealand to Chile, from Japan to California, and has written and presented three television series for the BBC, "Inside the Medieval Mind" (2008), "The Normans" (2010), which took him to Sicily, Istanbul, and Jerusalem, and "The Plantagenets" (2014).