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producing edited volumes. In addition to what is mentioned above, he was, for example, the founding editor of the
Longmans/Pearson Medieval World series from 1987 to 2001, thereby encouraging publications by many other scholars. Twenty-four books were published during this period and many are still in print. He contributed all the pre-1066 entries to
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Institute of Historical Research he organised five annual Anglo-American conferences from 2004 to 2008 and several other major conferences. He was Director of the Battle Conference on
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Gender and Historiography: Studies in the History of the Earlier Middle Ages in Honour of Pauline Stafford
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The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture (2002) at the Battle Conference. âThe Conquerorâs Adolescenceâ, in
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Il Feudalesimo nellâAlto Medioevo: Settimane di Studi del Centro Italiano di Studi sullâAlto Medioevo
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Frankland: The Franks and the World of the Early Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of Dame Jinty Nelson
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Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference (2002)
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Normandy and its Neighbours, 900-1250: Essays for David Bates
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Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
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992:The History Today Companion to British History
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