James E Fraser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5934859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James E Fraser |
| GIVEN NAMES | James E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraser |
| SIGNATURE | FRASER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in Celtic and Early Scottish History and Culture at the Univer- sity of Edinburgh. This article is a revised version of part of his Master’s Thesis (see note 3) and he is grateful to his supervisor on that project, Elizabeth Ewan, as well as to Dauvit Broun, for their comments on earlier drafts. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Caledonia to Pictland
From Caledonia to Pictland
"Examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence."--Page 4 of cover.
League and Iron
Nations Reformed
Aldfrith died at Driffield, thirty kilometres north of Hull in the heart of Deira, on 14 December 704. The king's successor was Eadwulf, whose reign lasted a matter of weeks into the new year before he was driven from the kingdom by supporters of Aldfrith's son Osred, who was only eight years old. As she had done after the battle of Dún Nechtain, Aldfrith's sister Aelffled of Whitby acted to preserve her Aeðilfrithing dynasty, supporting the boy …
Postscript Remote from the Roman Nation
After seven centuries and so much change, we come full circle on the subject of relations and interlinkages between the inhabitants of northern Britain and the Eternal City. Eighth-century Pictish rhetoric and ethnicity notwithstanding, remoteness from the Romans was seldom achieved between the Flavian conquest and the flourishing of Northumbria and Pictavia. The northern reaches of Britain were penetrated by Roman soldiers, sailors and others du…
New Nations
On 4 February 211, L. Septimius Severus died at the city of Eboracum (modern York). The old Libyan usurper was the third ruling emperor of the Romans to set foot in their province of Britannia in southern Britain, and expired in the midst of his country's third major war in the north of the island. According to a History written some years later by Cassius Dio — a senator who had served in the emperor's advisory council during the war — Severus's…
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World
Bede, the Firth of Forth, and the Location of Urbs Iudeu
The stronghold of Iudeu, which Bede called urbs Giudi, appears to have been a royal centre held by the seventh-century kings of the Bernician English, and sufficiently prominent to lend its name to the Firth of Forth in the British and Gaelic languages. The name appears not to have survived in any modern place -name, leaving us reliant on Bede's vague description of the site in Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, as well as a few other scraps…
St Columba and the convention at Druimm Cete
Attendance at the ‘convention of kings’ at Druimm Cete in north‐east Ireland is one of the most famous episodes in the career of St Columba or Colum Cille, who died in 597. Discussion of the significance of this shadowy summit, largely informed by unreliable late evidence, has hitherto focused upon what (may have) transpired there between kings based in Ireland and Scotland. The result has been the neglect of the hagiographical dimension of the p…
Oram, The Lordship of Galloway
A Swan from a Raven’
There have been any number of studies devoted to the 'real' William Wallace, including a veritable explosion of productivity in the wake of recent global publicity afforded his story, which had begun to make its way into English historiography even before his death.Subsequent to these uneven and unfavourable contemporary accounts, the tale of this notable Scot passed through a number of phases of development in the historiography of his native la…
Bede, the Firth of Forth, and the Location of Urbs Iudeu
The stronghold of Iudeu, which Bede called urbs Giudi, appears to have been a royal centre held by the seventh-century kings of the Bernician English, and sufficiently prominent to lend its name to the Firth of Forth in the British and Gaelic languages. The name appears not to have survived in any modern place -name, leaving us reliant on Bede's vague description of the site in Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, as well as a few other scraps…
Oram, The Lordship of Galloway
A Swan from a Raven’
There have been any number of studies devoted to the 'real' William Wallace, including a veritable explosion of productivity in the wake of recent global publicity afforded his story, which had begun to make its way into English historiography even before his death.Subsequent to these uneven and unfavourable contemporary accounts, the tale of this notable Scot passed through a number of phases of development in the historiography of his native la…
St Columba and the convention at Druimm Cete
Attendance at the ‘convention of kings’ at Druimm Cete in north‐east Ireland is one of the most famous episodes in the career of St Columba or Colum Cille, who died in 597. Discussion of the significance of this shadowy summit, largely informed by unreliable late evidence, has hitherto focused upon what (may have) transpired there between kings based in Ireland and Scotland. The result has been the neglect of the hagiographical dimension of the p…
Bede, the Firth of Forth, and the Location of Urbs Iudeu
The stronghold of Iudeu, which Bede called urbs Giudi, appears to have been a royal centre held by the seventh-century kings of the Bernician English, and sufficiently prominent to lend its name to the Firth of Forth in the British and Gaelic languages. The name appears not to have survived in any modern place -name, leaving us reliant on Bede's vague description of the site in Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, as well as a few other scraps…
From Caledonia to Pictland
From Caledonia to Pictland
"Examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence."--Page 4 of cover.
League and Iron
Nations Reformed
Aldfrith died at Driffield, thirty kilometres north of Hull in the heart of Deira, on 14 December 704. The king's successor was Eadwulf, whose reign lasted a matter of weeks into the new year before he was driven from the kingdom by supporters of Aldfrith's son Osred, who was only eight years old. As she had done after the battle of Dún Nechtain, Aldfrith's sister Aelffled of Whitby acted to preserve her Aeðilfrithing dynasty, supporting the boy …
Postscript Remote from the Roman Nation
After seven centuries and so much change, we come full circle on the subject of relations and interlinkages between the inhabitants of northern Britain and the Eternal City. Eighth-century Pictish rhetoric and ethnicity notwithstanding, remoteness from the Romans was seldom achieved between the Flavian conquest and the flourishing of Northumbria and Pictavia. The northern reaches of Britain were penetrated by Roman soldiers, sailors and others du…
New Nations
On 4 February 211, L. Septimius Severus died at the city of Eboracum (modern York). The old Libyan usurper was the third ruling emperor of the Romans to set foot in their province of Britannia in southern Britain, and expired in the midst of his country's third major war in the north of the island. According to a History written some years later by Cassius Dio — a senator who had served in the emperor's advisory council during the war — Severus's…
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World
History (8 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works)