He is the eighth Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge) at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Girton College,Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of Arts at Birkbeck,University of London.[2] He has written widely on medieval Christian-Jewish relations and on medieval culture and literature. He was state educated at a comprehensive school and sixth-form college in north Staffordshire.[3] His father's family were Shetlandic lighthouse-keepers.[4][dead link] He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011,a prize "awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study,are recognised at an international level,and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise." He has published Feeling Persecuted:Christians,Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages,[5] which was awarded the Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has published new editions of The Book of Marvels and Travels by Sir John Mandeville and The Book of Margery Kempe.[6] He co-edited (with Sebastian Sobecki) Medieval English Travel:A Critical Anthology,and was Morton W. Bloomfield Fellow at Harvard University. His biography of Margery Kempe,entitled Margery Kempe:A Mixed Life,appeared in 2021.
In 2023 Viking Penguin published his Travel Guide to the Middle Ages:the World through Medieval Eyes.[7]The Times (UK) praised its 'perfect prose'[8] and The New Yorker called it 'an immensely-entertaining history'.[9]A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages has since been published in Bulgarian,Chinese,Czech,Dutch,German,Italian,Polish,Portuguese,Romanian and Russian translations. Die Presse (Austria) called it 'a wonderful book';[10]Blick (Switzerland) called it 'fascinating and outstanding',[11] whilst De Standaard (Belgium) wrote that 'there is no better tour guide than Anthony Bale.'[12]
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