My research addresses medieval social archaeology, with particular focus on gender and beliefs. I have published widely on the archaeology of the medieval life course, burial and religious communities (nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, cathedrals), sacred heritage, and the relationship between Christianity and medieval magic. I held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2007-10) to consider archaeological approaches to ageing and the life course in medieval England. The resulting book was published in 2012 by Boydell : 'Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course'. My most recent book, 'Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs' is the result of the Rhind Lectures and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020 as an Open Access monograph.
I am an elected Fellow of the British Academy (2008) and the Sociey of Antiquaries of London (2002). I am an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge (2018), and an honorary research fellow of the British Museum (2020). I am a Trustee of Glastonbury Abbey and the journal Antiquity. I was voted 'Archaeologist of the Year 2016' in the Current Archaeology Awards, in which 14,000 members of the public voted.
Understanding religious change between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Reformation forms... more Understanding religious change between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Reformation forms one of the cornerstones of medieval archaeology, but has been riven by period, denominational, and geographical divisions. This paper lays the groundwork for a fundamental rethink of archaeological approaches to medieval religions, by adopting an holistic framework that places Christian, pagan, Islamic and Jewish case studies of religious transformation in a long-term, cross-cultural perspective. Focused around the analytical themes of ‘hybridity and resilience’ and ‘tempo and trajectories’, our approach shifts attention away from the singularities of national narratives of religious conversion, towards a deeper understanding of how religious beliefs, practices and identity were renegotiated by medieval people in their daily lives.
Chapter 5, in Iona McCleery (ed.) A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages, London: Bloomsbury, 107-29., 2021
Medieval healing encompassed a broad range of approaches informed by science, religion and folklo... more Medieval healing encompassed a broad range of approaches informed by science, religion and folklore, performed by an equally diverse group of practitioners. This chapter discusses the contribution that artifactual analyses make to a cultural history of medieval medicine, and more specifically what the study of archaeological sources can offer, drawing principally on evidence from medieval Britain.
An Interview with Roberta Gilchrist, author of Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities,... more An Interview with Roberta Gilchrist, author of Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020
This article critically reviews the archaeological study of high to late medieval burials (c AD 1... more This article critically reviews the archaeological study of high to late medieval burials (c AD 1000–1550), examining how and why research questions have changed in recent decades. Examples are drawn from Christian mortuary practices principally from Britain, Northern and Central Europe, to demonstrate increasing emphasis on the social study of emotion, agency and place. The question of social ‘value’ is addressed, exploring how disciplinary research agendas respond to altering academic currents and wider public concerns regarding medieval burials. Four themes are examined that characterise key developments: i) a shift towards the micro-scale; ii) the exploration of emotion, with particular focus on child and infant burials; iii) a preoccupation with ‘deviancy’ (non-normative practices); and iv) ethical considerations in the public consumption of medieval burial archaeology. Recommendations for future work include the need for comparative, larger-scale analyses to map diachronic and regional patterns across medieval Europe and to balance recent trends towards the local and the individual.
Cambridge University Press Open Access Monograph, 2020
This single-authored book critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage. Drawing on global ... more This single-authored book critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage. Drawing on global perspectives from heritage studies, archaeology, museology, anthropology and architectural history, Gilchrist examines the multiple values of medieval Christian heritage. She investigates monastic archaeology through the lens of the material study of religion and reveals the sensory experience of religion through case studies including Glastonbury Abbey and Scottish monasticism. The work offers new insights into medieval identity and regional distinctiveness, healing and magic, and memory practices in the sacred landscape. It also reflects on the significance of medieval sacred landscapes as contested heritage sites which hold diverse meansings to contemporary groups.
TTidens landskap. En vänbok till Anders Andrén, 2019
This paper considers the evidence for placed deposits in later medieval Christian contexts, focus... more This paper considers the evidence for placed deposits in later medieval Christian contexts, focusing particularly on parish and monastic churches. My aim is to consider placed deposits within the contextual framework of Christian ritual, to trace patterns in the types of object deposited in churches and to begin to establish frameworks of reference in which they may be understood. These practices are not recorded in medieval documents and have therefore fallen outside the orbit of historical scholarship on popular religion and magic.
Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval ... more Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage interpretations to achieve greater societal impact. This article explores the role that gender currently plays in interpretations of medieval castles in Britain, supported by three case-studies written by heritage professionals. The enduring narrative of militarism at medieval castles sites is discussed, together with issues of authenticity in relation to the historical record, which is in itself biased and inherently gendered. Outcomes from a collaborative workshop highlight the need to address interpretative issues where gender is considered to equate to ‘making women visible’. Finally, we pose the question: What makes a ‘good gendered interpretation’ at a public heritage site?
In S Page and C Rider (eds) 2019, The Routledge History of Medieval Magic (Routledge: Abingdon), ... more In S Page and C Rider (eds) 2019, The Routledge History of Medieval Magic (Routledge: Abingdon), pp 383-401. ISBN 978-1-4724-4730-2 The use of archaeology as source material for medieval magic raises a number of methodological and theoretical issues. Many of the rituals of common magic revealed by archaeology were never (or rarely) documented in medieval texts. The lack of correlation between texts and material culture has been regarded as a methodological problem for historians; 1 to the contrary, these complementary sources permit access to social contexts and agents that are under-represented in texts, particularly women and other practitioners who operated in domestic and rural environments. It offers the potential to interrogate the distinction between 'theory and practice' in medieval magic and opens up new opportunities to directly access 'the mental world of the non-literate'. 2 Archaeology renders a wider range of practices visible, but the absence of textual commentary makes it difficult to gauge whether these activities were sanctioned by the church or regarded as illicit magic.
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
Contents page and summary of 500 page, full-colour monograph, co-authored by Roberta Gilchrist an... more Contents page and summary of 500 page, full-colour monograph, co-authored by Roberta Gilchrist and Cheryl Green, on the archaeological investigations carried out at Glastonbury Abbey. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, with contributions by 31 leading specialists.
Major advances in church and monastic archaeology are discussed in terms of two distinct waves, c... more Major advances in church and monastic archaeology are discussed in terms of two distinct waves, c. 1970–95 and 1995– to the time of writing (2014). The first wave was influenced by landscape history and processual archaeology; scholarship focused principally on historical, economic and technological questions and targeted individual sites and monuments for
study. The second wave has been informed by post-processual approaches and
considers change and complexity in religious landscapes and perspectives on religious space, embodiment and agency. In conclusion, a more holistic approach to the archaeology of medieval Christian belief is called for, one
which moves beyond the focus on institutions and monuments that has characterized ‘monastic and church archaeology’ and extends archaeological study to include the performative rituals of Christian life and death in the middle ages.
Interpreting the Early Modern World, eds M C Beaudry and J Symonds (2011), Springer, 159-73., 2011
Approaches to gender in British and American historical archaeology are contrasted, highlighting ... more Approaches to gender in British and American historical archaeology are contrasted, highlighting the absence of a narrative tradition in European archaeology and the greater emphasis on the study of gender in spatial and mortuary contexts. Points of similarity are found in the influence of feminist theory and the use of multidisciplinary sources for historical archaeology. A study of medieval and early modern burial rites is presented with particular
emphasis on the representation of gender and age. Finally, a more narrative interpretation is developed to explore the possible significance of the burial of an infant beneath the floor of a medieval rural house.
J Carmen and R Skeates (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 673-93, 2012
Tim Phillips and Roberta Gilchrist have been key players in a major project investigating the iss... more Tim Phillips and Roberta Gilchrist have been key players in a major project investigating the issues surrounding disability and archaeological fieldwork in the UK. In this chapter, they outline, on a global scale, the current anti-discrimination legalization intended to ensure the social inclusion of disabled persons. They then describe how different archaeological organizations in the UK have responded to this, and highlight some of the tensions that have arisen. They also present a case study of university training, derived from their own project, in which disabled students have been enabled to participate in archaeological fieldwork, guided by a philosophy of focusing on individual ability as opposed to disability.
Ritual changes and changing rituals. Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices, ed. M. Prusac and R. Brandt, Oxbow, 379-96, 2014
The most significant changes in medieval burial practices developed in response to the conversion... more The most significant changes in medieval burial practices developed in response to the conversion to Christianity. This paper focuses on the transitional period of the 9th to the 11th centuries in England, when distinctively Christian burial rites emerged that placed a new emphasis on the treatment of the corpse and the structure of the grave. Recent interpretations have emphasized economic and political factors in prompting the demise of the furnished inhumation rite. In contrast, it is argued here that Christian eschatology played a central role in shifting emphasis to maintaining the material continuity of the body, to allow its literal resurrection at Judgement Day. Christian burial rites of this period exhibit three broad tendencies: the marking of graves with distinct materials, the containment of the body, and the dressing of religious corpses. It is proposed that these traits relate to Christian beliefs about the afterlife, and in particular the tenets of the literal resurrection, the embodied experience of purgatory, and the perceived reality of corporeal transformation in death. Investigation of funerary rites at the junctures between the boundaries of early and later medieval periods also reveals long-term continuities and the reworking of older traditions, such as the placement of amulets with the dead.
Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of Heinrich Harke, ed. D. Sayer and H. Williams, Exeter University Press, 236-52, 2009
This paper reviews transitions in medieval masculinity through the archaeological evidence for bu... more This paper reviews transitions in medieval masculinity through the archaeological evidence for burial rites. I take as my starting point an article by Heinrich Härke published in Past and Present in 1990, ‘Warrior graves? The background of the Anglo-Saxon burial rite’. Recent theoretical approaches to the study of masculinity have emphasized the use of metonymy in constructing hegemonic values of masculinity, for instance the use of weapons as grave goods to create a naturalized equation of maleness with power. A case study is presented of clergy burials, c. 1050 – 1150, a critical period in the redefinition of masculinity, as a new celibate priesthood was created by the Gregorian Reform. I argue that during the middle ages the clergy developed a monopoly over the expression of masculine identity through burial rites, replacing the earlier metonymy of weapons with the symbolism of the priest’s role in the sacraments. Staging of the priest’s corpse, including the placement of the chalice and paten, constructed a mystical masculinity that was focused on the consecrated body of the priest.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 151, 107-36, 1999
Analysis of the north transept of Norwich Cathedral was prompted by archaeological recording of i... more Analysis of the north transept of Norwich Cathedral was prompted by archaeological recording of its northern external elevation. Here detailed archaeological and petrological evidence is presented, together with historical and visual sources for the functions and form of the medieval and post-medieval north transept, an area distinguished by its close spatial and iconographic links with the bishop's palace. A reconstruction of the Romanesque gable is presented, proposing a more elaborate treatment consistent with both the cathedral and castle at Norwich; further, it is shown that the two buildings were planned to share proportions of the elevation. Of considerable interest is the identification of Quarr stone in the primary build, refining our knowledge of the use, chronology and distribution of this stone. Evidence is considered for the repair programmes of the 18th and 19th centuries, elucidating attitudes to conservation and the organisation if building works.
Understanding religious change between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Reformation forms... more Understanding religious change between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Reformation forms one of the cornerstones of medieval archaeology, but has been riven by period, denominational, and geographical divisions. This paper lays the groundwork for a fundamental rethink of archaeological approaches to medieval religions, by adopting an holistic framework that places Christian, pagan, Islamic and Jewish case studies of religious transformation in a long-term, cross-cultural perspective. Focused around the analytical themes of ‘hybridity and resilience’ and ‘tempo and trajectories’, our approach shifts attention away from the singularities of national narratives of religious conversion, towards a deeper understanding of how religious beliefs, practices and identity were renegotiated by medieval people in their daily lives.
Chapter 5, in Iona McCleery (ed.) A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages, London: Bloomsbury, 107-29., 2021
Medieval healing encompassed a broad range of approaches informed by science, religion and folklo... more Medieval healing encompassed a broad range of approaches informed by science, religion and folklore, performed by an equally diverse group of practitioners. This chapter discusses the contribution that artifactual analyses make to a cultural history of medieval medicine, and more specifically what the study of archaeological sources can offer, drawing principally on evidence from medieval Britain.
An Interview with Roberta Gilchrist, author of Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities,... more An Interview with Roberta Gilchrist, author of Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020
This article critically reviews the archaeological study of high to late medieval burials (c AD 1... more This article critically reviews the archaeological study of high to late medieval burials (c AD 1000–1550), examining how and why research questions have changed in recent decades. Examples are drawn from Christian mortuary practices principally from Britain, Northern and Central Europe, to demonstrate increasing emphasis on the social study of emotion, agency and place. The question of social ‘value’ is addressed, exploring how disciplinary research agendas respond to altering academic currents and wider public concerns regarding medieval burials. Four themes are examined that characterise key developments: i) a shift towards the micro-scale; ii) the exploration of emotion, with particular focus on child and infant burials; iii) a preoccupation with ‘deviancy’ (non-normative practices); and iv) ethical considerations in the public consumption of medieval burial archaeology. Recommendations for future work include the need for comparative, larger-scale analyses to map diachronic and regional patterns across medieval Europe and to balance recent trends towards the local and the individual.
Cambridge University Press Open Access Monograph, 2020
This single-authored book critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage. Drawing on global ... more This single-authored book critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage. Drawing on global perspectives from heritage studies, archaeology, museology, anthropology and architectural history, Gilchrist examines the multiple values of medieval Christian heritage. She investigates monastic archaeology through the lens of the material study of religion and reveals the sensory experience of religion through case studies including Glastonbury Abbey and Scottish monasticism. The work offers new insights into medieval identity and regional distinctiveness, healing and magic, and memory practices in the sacred landscape. It also reflects on the significance of medieval sacred landscapes as contested heritage sites which hold diverse meansings to contemporary groups.
TTidens landskap. En vänbok till Anders Andrén, 2019
This paper considers the evidence for placed deposits in later medieval Christian contexts, focus... more This paper considers the evidence for placed deposits in later medieval Christian contexts, focusing particularly on parish and monastic churches. My aim is to consider placed deposits within the contextual framework of Christian ritual, to trace patterns in the types of object deposited in churches and to begin to establish frameworks of reference in which they may be understood. These practices are not recorded in medieval documents and have therefore fallen outside the orbit of historical scholarship on popular religion and magic.
Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval ... more Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage interpretations to achieve greater societal impact. This article explores the role that gender currently plays in interpretations of medieval castles in Britain, supported by three case-studies written by heritage professionals. The enduring narrative of militarism at medieval castles sites is discussed, together with issues of authenticity in relation to the historical record, which is in itself biased and inherently gendered. Outcomes from a collaborative workshop highlight the need to address interpretative issues where gender is considered to equate to ‘making women visible’. Finally, we pose the question: What makes a ‘good gendered interpretation’ at a public heritage site?
In S Page and C Rider (eds) 2019, The Routledge History of Medieval Magic (Routledge: Abingdon), ... more In S Page and C Rider (eds) 2019, The Routledge History of Medieval Magic (Routledge: Abingdon), pp 383-401. ISBN 978-1-4724-4730-2 The use of archaeology as source material for medieval magic raises a number of methodological and theoretical issues. Many of the rituals of common magic revealed by archaeology were never (or rarely) documented in medieval texts. The lack of correlation between texts and material culture has been regarded as a methodological problem for historians; 1 to the contrary, these complementary sources permit access to social contexts and agents that are under-represented in texts, particularly women and other practitioners who operated in domestic and rural environments. It offers the potential to interrogate the distinction between 'theory and practice' in medieval magic and opens up new opportunities to directly access 'the mental world of the non-literate'. 2 Archaeology renders a wider range of practices visible, but the absence of textual commentary makes it difficult to gauge whether these activities were sanctioned by the church or regarded as illicit magic.
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
Contents page and summary of 500 page, full-colour monograph, co-authored by Roberta Gilchrist an... more Contents page and summary of 500 page, full-colour monograph, co-authored by Roberta Gilchrist and Cheryl Green, on the archaeological investigations carried out at Glastonbury Abbey. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, with contributions by 31 leading specialists.
Major advances in church and monastic archaeology are discussed in terms of two distinct waves, c... more Major advances in church and monastic archaeology are discussed in terms of two distinct waves, c. 1970–95 and 1995– to the time of writing (2014). The first wave was influenced by landscape history and processual archaeology; scholarship focused principally on historical, economic and technological questions and targeted individual sites and monuments for
study. The second wave has been informed by post-processual approaches and
considers change and complexity in religious landscapes and perspectives on religious space, embodiment and agency. In conclusion, a more holistic approach to the archaeology of medieval Christian belief is called for, one
which moves beyond the focus on institutions and monuments that has characterized ‘monastic and church archaeology’ and extends archaeological study to include the performative rituals of Christian life and death in the middle ages.
Interpreting the Early Modern World, eds M C Beaudry and J Symonds (2011), Springer, 159-73., 2011
Approaches to gender in British and American historical archaeology are contrasted, highlighting ... more Approaches to gender in British and American historical archaeology are contrasted, highlighting the absence of a narrative tradition in European archaeology and the greater emphasis on the study of gender in spatial and mortuary contexts. Points of similarity are found in the influence of feminist theory and the use of multidisciplinary sources for historical archaeology. A study of medieval and early modern burial rites is presented with particular
emphasis on the representation of gender and age. Finally, a more narrative interpretation is developed to explore the possible significance of the burial of an infant beneath the floor of a medieval rural house.
J Carmen and R Skeates (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 673-93, 2012
Tim Phillips and Roberta Gilchrist have been key players in a major project investigating the iss... more Tim Phillips and Roberta Gilchrist have been key players in a major project investigating the issues surrounding disability and archaeological fieldwork in the UK. In this chapter, they outline, on a global scale, the current anti-discrimination legalization intended to ensure the social inclusion of disabled persons. They then describe how different archaeological organizations in the UK have responded to this, and highlight some of the tensions that have arisen. They also present a case study of university training, derived from their own project, in which disabled students have been enabled to participate in archaeological fieldwork, guided by a philosophy of focusing on individual ability as opposed to disability.
Ritual changes and changing rituals. Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices, ed. M. Prusac and R. Brandt, Oxbow, 379-96, 2014
The most significant changes in medieval burial practices developed in response to the conversion... more The most significant changes in medieval burial practices developed in response to the conversion to Christianity. This paper focuses on the transitional period of the 9th to the 11th centuries in England, when distinctively Christian burial rites emerged that placed a new emphasis on the treatment of the corpse and the structure of the grave. Recent interpretations have emphasized economic and political factors in prompting the demise of the furnished inhumation rite. In contrast, it is argued here that Christian eschatology played a central role in shifting emphasis to maintaining the material continuity of the body, to allow its literal resurrection at Judgement Day. Christian burial rites of this period exhibit three broad tendencies: the marking of graves with distinct materials, the containment of the body, and the dressing of religious corpses. It is proposed that these traits relate to Christian beliefs about the afterlife, and in particular the tenets of the literal resurrection, the embodied experience of purgatory, and the perceived reality of corporeal transformation in death. Investigation of funerary rites at the junctures between the boundaries of early and later medieval periods also reveals long-term continuities and the reworking of older traditions, such as the placement of amulets with the dead.
Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of Heinrich Harke, ed. D. Sayer and H. Williams, Exeter University Press, 236-52, 2009
This paper reviews transitions in medieval masculinity through the archaeological evidence for bu... more This paper reviews transitions in medieval masculinity through the archaeological evidence for burial rites. I take as my starting point an article by Heinrich Härke published in Past and Present in 1990, ‘Warrior graves? The background of the Anglo-Saxon burial rite’. Recent theoretical approaches to the study of masculinity have emphasized the use of metonymy in constructing hegemonic values of masculinity, for instance the use of weapons as grave goods to create a naturalized equation of maleness with power. A case study is presented of clergy burials, c. 1050 – 1150, a critical period in the redefinition of masculinity, as a new celibate priesthood was created by the Gregorian Reform. I argue that during the middle ages the clergy developed a monopoly over the expression of masculine identity through burial rites, replacing the earlier metonymy of weapons with the symbolism of the priest’s role in the sacraments. Staging of the priest’s corpse, including the placement of the chalice and paten, constructed a mystical masculinity that was focused on the consecrated body of the priest.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 151, 107-36, 1999
Analysis of the north transept of Norwich Cathedral was prompted by archaeological recording of i... more Analysis of the north transept of Norwich Cathedral was prompted by archaeological recording of its northern external elevation. Here detailed archaeological and petrological evidence is presented, together with historical and visual sources for the functions and form of the medieval and post-medieval north transept, an area distinguished by its close spatial and iconographic links with the bishop's palace. A reconstruction of the Romanesque gable is presented, proposing a more elaborate treatment consistent with both the cathedral and castle at Norwich; further, it is shown that the two buildings were planned to share proportions of the elevation. Of considerable interest is the identification of Quarr stone in the primary build, refining our knowledge of the use, chronology and distribution of this stone. Evidence is considered for the repair programmes of the 18th and 19th centuries, elucidating attitudes to conservation and the organisation if building works.
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Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
https://www.routledge.com/Medieval-Archaeology/Gilchrist/p/book/9780415718165
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
study. The second wave has been informed by post-processual approaches and
considers change and complexity in religious landscapes and perspectives on religious space, embodiment and agency. In conclusion, a more holistic approach to the archaeology of medieval Christian belief is called for, one
which moves beyond the focus on institutions and monuments that has characterized ‘monastic and church archaeology’ and extends archaeological study to include the performative rituals of Christian life and death in the middle ages.
emphasis on the representation of gender and age. Finally, a more narrative interpretation is developed to explore the possible significance of the burial of an infant beneath the floor of a medieval rural house.
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
https://www.routledge.com/Medieval-Archaeology/Gilchrist/p/book/9780415718165
Focusing on the archaeology of medieval Europe (c. 1000–1550AD), this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables researchers and advanced students to make better sense of a vast—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship. The gathered materials have been carefully selected to highlight the key issues and debates in the development and contemporary practice of Medieval Archaeology, and each volume includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. Medieval Archaeology is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists—as well as those working in allied areas such as Medieval Studies, History, and Art History—as a vital one-stop research tool.
study. The second wave has been informed by post-processual approaches and
considers change and complexity in religious landscapes and perspectives on religious space, embodiment and agency. In conclusion, a more holistic approach to the archaeology of medieval Christian belief is called for, one
which moves beyond the focus on institutions and monuments that has characterized ‘monastic and church archaeology’ and extends archaeological study to include the performative rituals of Christian life and death in the middle ages.
emphasis on the representation of gender and age. Finally, a more narrative interpretation is developed to explore the possible significance of the burial of an infant beneath the floor of a medieval rural house.