Richard Abels FRHistS (born 1951) is professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. Abels is a specialist in the military and political institutions of Anglo-Saxon England. He was Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected 1990).
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Longman, London, 1998.Raoul of Cambrai: An Old French Epic, trans. J. Crosland (1926). Revised translation with introduction by R. Abels. American Heritage CP, 1994.Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1988.The Normans and their Adversaries: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister. Co-edited with Bernard Bachrach. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2001.