Stephen I. Boardman,

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, is a Scottish medieval historian. A graduate of the

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, he held the Glenfiddich Research Fellowship and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the

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at St Andrews before being appointed Mackie Lecturer in History at the

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in 1995. He subsequently moved to the

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, where he is now Professor of Medieval Scottish History. Boardman's work focuses on kingship and the nobility in the later Middle Ages, and he has completed work on Scottish kings Robert II and Robert III, as well as

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. The former is the only work to deal specifically with those monarchs.

Select bibliography

* ''The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III, 1371-1406''. Tuckwell Press. 1996 * Editor. ''The Exercise of Power in Scotland, 1250-1500''. Four Courts Press. 2003 * 'Survival and revival: late medieval Scotland' – J. Wormald (editor), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Scotland''. Oxford University Press. 2005 * ''The Campbells, 1250-1500''. Birlinn Press. 2005 * 'The Gaelic world and the early Stewart court' – D. Broun and M. MacGregor (editors), ''Miorun Mor nan Gall, The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander: Lowland Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands''. Stornoway. 2006

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External links

University of Edinburgh staff page
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