Strand leaders:
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, Professor of Archaeology, University of Iceland.
Strands: Project director. Will even oversee the archaeological investigations conducted inside the frame of the project.
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir is professor of archaeology at University of Iceland. Steinunn has studied monasticism in Iceland during the last decades. She did run archaeological research on the ruins of Skriðuklaustur from 2000–2012, the project Mapping monasticism in Iceland from 2013–2017 and excavations on the ruins of Þingeyraklaustur from 2018. Steinunn has published two monographs in Icelandic, Sagan af klaustrinu á Skriðu (2012), which won the Fjöruverðlaun in Iceland for the books in the scholarly category in 2012, and Leitin að klaustrunum (2017) which won the Hagþenkir prize in 2017. Both were nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Her monograph Monastic Iceland will be published by Routledge in 2023. Steinunn and was the head of Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology from 2018–2022. She received the Order of the Falcon award from the Icelandic state in 2016 for archaeological research and general contribution to the history of Iceland.
James Clark, Professor of History, Exeter University.
Strand: The dissemination and development of Benedictines in Europe before the Reformation.
Gottskálk Jensson, Associate Professor at The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, and Affiliate Professor, at the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland.
Strand: Investigation on medieval manuscripts but even the libraries and book production in the Benedictine houses.
Joe W. Walser III, PhD from University of Iceland. Curator of Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of Iceland.
Strand: Overseeing the scientific analysing of the human skeletal remains, manuscripts and textiles preserved or excavated during the project´s time span.
Joe W. Walser III, Curator of Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of Iceland. Joe received his BA in Anthropology at Temple University, MSc in Palaeopathology at Durham University and his PhD at the University of Iceland. Joe specialises in human osteology and methods in archaeological science, such as isotope and molecular analyses, and has worked on human skeletal assemblages from Iceland, Spain, Bulgaria, Sudan and the United Kingdom. In this project he will oversee the scientific analyses of skeletal remains, textiles, manuscripts and other organic archaeological finds.
Egill Erlendsson, Professor of Geography (physical) at University of Iceland.
Task: Overseeing research related to land use and environment as reflected in archaeological and natural contexts and within the spatial extent of the area influenced by the monastic sites in question.
Advisory board:
Alan Outram, Head of Archaeology and Professor of Archaeological Science, at the Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter.
Task: To supervise the investigation of the remains of the animals kept on the Benedictine settlements in question in regard to manuscript and textile making, besides the diet inside the monastic houses.
Janet Montgomery, Professor of Archaeological Science at Durham University.
Task: Directing and supervising research related to the use of isotope analyses for the reconstruction of diet and geographic provenance from archaeological skeletal remains excavated from the monastic sites.
Agnar S. Helgason, Senior Research Scientist at deCODE and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland.
Task: Supervise the analyses and interpretation of ancient DNA data produced through this project.
Claire Browne
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