Christopher Harper-Bill


Christopher Harper-Bill was a British historian who was a professor of history at the University of East Anglia. He had previously taught Medieval History at St. Mary's University College (Twickenham). Harper-Bill's research interests were "the ecclesiastical history of England from the Norman Conquest to the eve of the Reformation, and particularly in the edition of episcopal and monastic records." Harper-Bill was completing a four-volume edition of the acta of the bishops of Norwich from 1070 to 1299.
He completed his PhD at King's College London with a dissertation titled "An edition of the Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500, with critical introduction". He died on 8 September 2018.

Selected publications

  • Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. Longman, 1989.
  • The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood I: Papers from the First and Second Strawberry Hill Conferences. Boydell and Brewer, 1986.
  • The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood II: Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1988.
  • The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1990.
  • English Episcopal Acta 6: Norwich 1070-1214, Oxford University Press for British Academy, 1990.
  • Studies in the History of Medieval Religion: 3, Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the conference held at Strawberry Hill, Easter 1989, Boydell & Brewer, 1991,
  • The Anglo-Norman Church, Headstart History Papers, 1992,
  • Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood IV: Papers from the Fifth Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1992.
  • Studies in the History of Medieval Religion: 7, Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen, Boydell & Brewer, 1995,
  • Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. 2nd Edition, Routledge, 1996.
  • Anglo-Norman Studies XIX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996, Boydell & Brewer, 1997,
  • English Episcopal Acta 21: Norwich 1215-1243. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2001.
  • East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Boydell and Brewer, 2002.
  • A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World. Boydell and Brewer, 2007.
  • Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell and Brewer, 2007.
  • English Episcopal Acta 32: Norwich 1244-1266. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2007.
  • English Episcopal Acta 40: Norwich 1266-1288. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012.
  • English Episcopal Acta 41: Norwich 1289-1299. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012.