Christopher Harper-Bill
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.

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" (1977). He died on 8 September 2018.

Selected publications
Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. Longman, 1989.  (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. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) 
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood II: Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1988. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) 
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1990. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) 
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, (Editor)  
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. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) 
Studies in the History of Medieval Religion: 7, Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen, Boydell & Brewer, 1995, (Editor with M.J. Franklin)  
Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. 2nd Edition, Routledge, 1996.  (Seminar Studies in History)
Anglo-Norman Studies XIX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996, Boydell & Brewer, 1997, (Editor)  
English Episcopal Acta 21: Norwich 1215-1243. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2001. (Editor) 
East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Boydell and Brewer, 2002. (Editor with Carole Rawcliffe and Richard G. Wilson 
Medieval East Anglia. The Boydell Press, 2005, (Editor) 
A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. (Editor with Elisabeth van Houts) 
Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. (Editor with Nicholas Vincent, N) 
English Episcopal Acta 32: Norwich 1244-1266. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2007. (Editor)  
English Episcopal Acta 40: Norwich 1266-1288. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012. (Editor)  
English Episcopal Acta 41: Norwich 1289-1299. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012. (Editor)

See also
Suffolk Records Society

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1947 births
2018 deaths
Alumni of King's College London
Academics of St Mary's University, Twickenham
Academics of the University of East Anglia
British medievalists