James E. Fraser

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This article is about a Canadian historian; for the American sculptor, see James Earle Fraser

James Earle Fraser is a Canadian historian and Picticist, from Alliston, Ontario. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and did post-graduate work on William Wallace at the Scottish Studies programme of the University of Guelph. He went on to do his Ph.D on the christianization of Fortriu at the University of Edinburgh, and is now a lecturer in both the department of Celtic and the department of Scottish History there.

Fraser's most notable scholarly work has been done on St Ninian, and Adomnán's Vita Sancti Columbae, and he has published two books relating to early Pictish warfare. He has been selected to do the earliest volume in the upcoming New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 (UOE Press, forthcoming).

[edit] Publications

• "Hagiography", contribution to I. Brown (ed.), The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
• The Roman Conquest of Scotland: the battle of Mons Graupius AD 84, (Stroud: Tempus, 2005).
• "Adomnán and the morality of war", in R. Aist et al. (eds.), Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker, (Dublin, forthcoming).
• "The Iona Chronicle, the descendants of Áedán mac Gabráin, and the 'principal kindreds of Dál Riata'", Northern Studies, 38 (2004), 77-96.
• "Adomnán, Cumméne Ailbe and the Picts", Peritia, 17-18 (2003-04), 183-98.
• The Battle of Dunnichen 685, (Stroud: Tempus, 2002).
• "Northumbrian Whithorn and the making of St Ninian", Innes Review, 53 (2002), 40-59.
• "A swan from a raven: William Wallace, Brucean propaganda and Gesta Annalia II", in Scottish Historical Review, 81 (2002), 1-22.