Christopher Harper-Bill is emeritus professor in the school of history at the University of East Anglia. He previously taught Medieval History at St. Mary's University College (Twickenham). Harper-Bill's research interests are "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 is 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).
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. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) ISBN 9780851154428The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood II: Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1988. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) ISBN 9780851154930The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1990. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) ISBN 9780851152653English Episcopal Acta 6: Norwich 1070-1214, Oxford University Press for British Academy, 1990. ISBN 0197260918Studies 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) ISBN 9780851152967The Anglo-Norman Church, Headstart History Papers, 1992, ISBN 9781873041901Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood IV: Papers from the Fifth Strawberry Hill Conference. Boydell and Brewer, 1992. (Editor with Ruth Harvey) ISBN 9780851153193Studies in the History of Medieval Religion: 7, Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen, Boydell & Brewer, 1995, (Editor with M.J. Franklin) ISBN 9780851153841Pre-Reformation Church in England, 1400-1530. 2nd Edition, Routledge, 1996. ISBN 0582355559 (Seminar Studies in History)Anglo-Norman Studies XIX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996, Boydell & Brewer, 1997, (Editor) ISBN 9780851157078English Episcopal Acta 21: Norwich 1215-1243. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2001. (Editor) ISBN 9780197262122East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Boydell and Brewer, 2002. (Editor with Carole Rawcliffe and Richard G. Wilson ISBN 0851158781Medieval East Anglia. The Boydell Press, 2005, (Editor) ISBN 1843831511A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. (Editor with Elisabeth Van Houts) ISBN 0851156738Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. (Editor with Nicholas Vincent, N) ISBN 9781843833406English Episcopal Acta 32: Norwich 1244-1266. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2007. (Editor) ISBN 9780197264171English Episcopal Acta 40: Norwich 1266-1288. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012. (Editor) ISBN 9780197265161English Episcopal Acta 41: Norwich 1289-1299. Oxford University Press for British Academy, 2012. (Editor) ISBN 9780197265178 
