UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon is in Norway this week after being invited to attend a workshop hosted by the University of Bergen research group Medieval History – religion and everyday life.
While there Sarah Jane will present Parishes and Pilgrimage: medieval Christianity in the Norse Earldom of Orkney – a lecture providing an overview of the Christianisation of Orkney.
The presentation draws on Sarah Jane’s doctoral and research into small churches, parochial organisation and local veneration of St Magnus from a landscape archaeology perspective, concluding with an example of contemporary use of some of this research as the basis for the St Magnus Way – a recently created pilgrimage route in Orkney.
