Dauvit Broun,

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, FBA ( en, David Brown) (born 1961) is a Scottish historian and academic. He is the professor of Scottish history at the

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. A specialist in medieval Scottish and

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, he concentrates primarily on early medieval Scotland, and has written abundantly on the topic of early Scottish king-lists, as well as on

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-writing,

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, and on the text known as '' de Situ Albanie''. He is editor of the ''New Edinburgh History of Scotland'' series, the pre-1603 editor of the '' Scottish Historical Review'', convener of the Scottish History Society, and the Principal Investigator of the

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-funded project 'The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1286'.

Honours

Dauvit was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2013. In July 2017, Broun was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences. In 2013 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture.textvideo
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References

External links

Staff Profile at the University of Glasgow

POMS website
* 1961 births Living people Celtic studies scholars British medievalists 20th-century Scottish historians Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the British Academy 21st-century Scottish historians {{UK-historian-stub