Bates, David (2012) In Search of the Normans. BBC History Magazine (8). pp. 30-35.
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) 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 (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 (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) 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 (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
Barral I. Altet, Xavier and Bates, David (2024) The Bayeux Tapestry. Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris. ISBN 9782386110092
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, ed. (2018) 1066 in Perspective. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 978-0948092848
Bates, David, van Houts, Elisabeth and D'Angelo, Edoardo, eds. (2018) People, Texts and Artefacts:Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds. Institute of Historical Research, London. ISBN 9781909646537
Bates, David (2016) William the Conqueror. The English Monarchs Series . Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 9780300118759
Bates, David and Bauduin, Pierre, eds. (2016) 911-2011 Penser les mondes normands médiévaux:Actes du colloque international de Caen et Cerisy (29 septembre-2 octobre 2011). Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, Caen. ISBN 9782841337743
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 and Liddiard, Robert, eds. (2013) East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge. ISBN 9781843838463
Bates, David, ed. (2013) Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012. Anglo-Norman Studies . Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge. ISBN 9781843838579
Bates, David, ed. (2012) Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV:Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011. Anglo-Norman Studies . Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 9781843837350
Bates, David, Crick, Julia and Hamilton, Sarah (2006) Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. Boydell Press. ISBN 1843832623