Christopher Harper-Bill
historian
Christopher Harper-Bill (1947 – 8 September 2018) 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.
Harper-Bill 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" (1977). He died on 8 September 2018.
Selected publications
Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. Longman, 1989. ISBN 0582355559 (Seminar Studies in History)
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood I: Papers from the First and Second Strawberry Hill Conferences. Boydell and Brewer, 1986.
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