Michael Hunter Brown
(born 1965), is a Scottish
medievalist
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lecturing at the
University of St Andrews
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. In 1991 he was the recipient of the
Royal Historical Society
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Origins
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's ''David Berry Prize''. His volume on the reign of King
James I of Scotland
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led to the award of the Agnes Mure prize for Scottish history. Brown's work is concentrated on late Medieval Scotland and its nobility. He is married to Margaret Connolly who also works at the University of St Andrews as a medievalist.
Select bibliography
* ''James I''. Tuckwell Press. 1994
* ''Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455''. Tuckwell Press. 1998
* ''Earldom and kindred: the Lennox and its earls, 1200-1458'' - Steve Boardman & Alasdair Ross (editors)
* ''The exercise of power in medieval Scotland, c. 1200-1500''. Four Courts Press. 2003
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* ''Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460'', Pearson. 2013
References
External links
St Andrews staff page
Living people
1965 births
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Historians of Scotland
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Scottish historians
21st-century Scottish historians
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