James Earle Fraser (historian)

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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 or northern British 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).

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  • The Roman Conquest of Scotland: the battle of Mons Graupius AD 84, (Stroud: Tempus, 2005).
  • The Battle of Dunnichen 685, (Stroud: Tempus, 2002).
  • "Northumbrian Whithorn and the making of St Ninian", Innes Review, 53 (2002), 40-59

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