Sacred Heritage - Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs

Critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage, drawing on multi-disciplinary, global perspectives to clarify the multiple values of sacred heritage to spiritual and humanist audiences. Forges innovative connections between medieval archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on medieval monasticism, identity, and healing. This title is also available as Open Access.

List of contents

1. Sacred values: medieval archaeology and spiritual heritage; 2. Monastic archaeology and national identity: the Scottish monastic experience; 3. Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing; 4. The materiality of magic: the ritual lives of people and things; 5. Monastic legacies: memory and the biography of place; 6. Sacred myths: archaeology and authenticity.

About the author

Roberta Gilchrist is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. A pioneer of gender and life course studies in archaeology, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2008, voted Current Archaeology's 'Archaeologist of the Year' in 2016, and became an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge in 2018. She is the author of several books, including Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course (2013) and Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women (1993).

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Gilchrist, Roberta (University of Reading) Gilchrist, Gilchrist Roberta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108496544
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49654-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europe, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Religion, Archaeology, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Archaeology by period / region, Medieval European archaeology