Prof Michael Brown

Professor of Scottish History

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2899

Email

mhb@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

On Research Leave Semester 1

 

Research areas

Political society of Scotland c.1250-c.1500 and on the relationships between the various communities of the British Isles during the same period. Published studies of the practice and ideology of royal and aristocratic lordship in Scotland.

PhD supervision

• Frances Bickerstaff
• Valerie Gruenzel
• William Mulloy

Selected publications

• Les Ecossais a la bataille de Bauge

  Brown, M., 26 Mar 2026, Les etres et leurs restes: Bauge XVe Siecle: une bataille dans l'histoire des trois royaumes. Roul, J. (ed.). p. 123 132 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Scotland, the Wars of the Roses and European Politics. War and Diplomacy in the Later Fifteenth Century.

  Brown, M., 28 Apr 2026, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 298 p. (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 'A traitor to the kingdom': Robert Bruce and the use of treason in fourteenth-century Scotland

  Brown, M. H., 5 Mar 2024, Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in honour of Roger A. Mason. Reid, S. J. (ed.). Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, p. 61-80 20 p. (St Andrews studies in Scottish history; vol. 11).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Hearts and Bodies. Edward I and the Scottish Magnates

  Brown, M. H., 2020, Edward I: New Perspectives. King, A. & Spencer, A. (eds.). The Boydell Press, p. 105-124 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  War, marriage, tournament: Scottish politics and the Anglo-French war, 1448-1450

  Brown, M. H., 1 Apr 2019, In: Scottish Historical Review. 98, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 'Ancient Magnificence': St Andrews in the Middle Ages: An Introduction

  Stevenson, K. & Brown, M. H., 8 Feb 2017, Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City. The Boydell Press, (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Medieval St Andrews: church, cult, city

  Brown, M. (Editor) & Stevenson, K. (Editor), 8 Feb 2017, Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 399 p. (St Andrews studies in Scottish history)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Prelates, citizens and landed folk: St Andrews as a centre of lordship in the late middle ages

  Brown, M. H., 2017, Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, p. 205-222 18 p. (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  'Lele counsale for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom c. 1250-c. 1450

  Brown, M. H., 1 Dec 2016, The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707. Rose, J. (ed.). Oxford: Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 204. p. 45-61 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• “Men, Brave and Strong”: Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages.

  Brown, M. H., 2016, Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn. Plain, G. (ed.). Maryland: Bucknell University Press, p. 49-64 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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