Barral I. Altet, Xavier and Bates, David (2024) The Bayeux Tapestry. Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris. ISBN 9782386110092
Bates, David (2021) Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans. In: Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 180-202. ISBN 9781316676004
Bates, David (2020) William the Conqueror and Wessex. In: Land of the English Kin. Brill, Leiden, pp. 517-537.
Bates, David (2019) Guillaume le Conquérant. Grandes Biographies . Flammarion, Paris. ISBN 9782081415485
Bates, David and Barral I Altet, Xavier (2019) La Tapisserie de Bayeux. Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris.
Bates, David (2019) Migration, Conquest, and Identity: England's History in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. In: Le Migrazioni nell'Alto Medieovo. Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, ITA, pp. 305-335. ISBN 978 88 6809 252 8
Bates, David (2018) Writing about William the Conqueror. In: 1066 in Perspective. Royal Armouries Conference Proceedings . Royal Armouries, Leeds, 238-253, 335-338. ISBN 978 0 948092 84 8
Bates, David (2018) Guillaume le Conquérant et les abbés anglais. In: Sur les pas de Lanfranc, du Bec à Caen. Annales de Normandie Cahier, Caen. ISBN 978 2 902239 40 5
Bates, David (2016) William the Conqueror. The English Monarchs Series . Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 9780300118759
Bates, David (2014) The Abbey and the Norman Conquest: An Unusual Case? In: Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 5-21. ISBN 978-1-84383-931-6
Bates, David (2014) Anglo-Norman Studies, XXXVI. Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2013. Anglo-Norman Studies. Proceedings of the Battle Conference . Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-84383-922-4
Bates, David (2013) The Normans and Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-967441-1
Bates, David (2012) Anger, emotion and a biography of William the Conqueror. In: Gender and historiography: Studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of Pauline Stafford. Institute of Historical Research, London. ISBN 978-1-905165-79-7
Bates, David (2012) In Search of the Normans. BBC History Magazine (8). pp. 30-35.
Bates, David (2012) Robert of Torigni and the Historia Anglorum. In: The English and their Legacy, 900-1200: Essays in Honour of Ann Williams. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 175-184. ISBN 978-1843837947
Bates, David (2011) Frank Barlow 1911-2009. In: Proceedings of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows. Proceedings of the British Academy, X (172). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-24. ISBN 978-0-19-726490-4
Bates, David (2009) Lucien Musset et la Normandie au Xie siècle: un point de vue d'Outre-Manche. In: Postèritè de Lucien Musset. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, pp. 35-42.
Bates, David (2009) Autour de l'annee 1047: un acte de Guillaume, comte d'Arques, pour Fecamp (18 juillet 1047). In: De part et d'autre de la Normandie medievale: Recueil d'etudes en hommage a Francois Neveux. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, pp. 43-52.
Bates, David (2008) The Representation of Queens and Queenship in Anglo-Norman Royal Charters. In: Frankland: The Franks and the World of the Early Middle Sages. Essays in Honour of Dame Jinty Nelson. Manchester University Press, pp. 285-303.
Bates, David, Crick, Julia and Hamilton, Sarah (2006) Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. Boydell Press. ISBN 1843832623
Bates, David (2006) William the Conqueror and his Wider Western European World. In: Haskins Society Journal XV. Boydell and Brewer, pp. 73-87. ISBN 1843831988
Bates, David (2003) The Conqueror's Adolescence. In: Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Abbey Conference XXV. Boydell Press, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780851159416
Bates, David (2003) La "mutation documetaire" et le royaume anglo-normand (seconde moitié du XIe siècle-début XIIe siècle). In: Les actes comme expression du pouvoir au Haut Moyen Age: Actes de la Table Ronde de Nancy, 26-27 novembre 1999. Turnhout, pp. 33-49. ISBN 2503521851