A Saint in Stone: Materiality, Place and Intangible Heritage in the study of the Cult of Saint Magnus

1098-1116/17年的北部岛屿伯爵圣马格努斯的物质遗产没有得到充分的研究。这位博士将采用跨学科的方法，记录中世纪教会的物质文化和幸存的教堂遗址，结合风景和海景分析，记录圣马格努斯在设得兰的精神和文化认同以及社区中的影响，并与他的邪教崇拜的奥克尼、凯斯内斯、法罗、冰岛和特隆赫姆进行比较。这项研究将在不断扩大的朝圣研究领域中具有重要意义，为了解北大西洋圣徒崇拜、朝圣和圣人崇拜的重要性提供新的线索。

The material legacy of Saint Magnus, earl of the Northern Isles from 1098-1116/17, is under-researched. This PhD will take an interdisciplinary approach of recording medieval ecclesiastical material culture and surviving church sites, together with landscape and seascape analysis to record Saint Magnus' influence within Shetland's spiritual and cultural identity, and community, in comparison with Orkney, Caithness, Faroes, Iceland and Trondheim, where his cult was venerated. The research will be of significance within the expanding field of pilgrimage studies, shedding new light on the materiality of the Cult of Saints and pilgrimage and saintly worship in the North Atlantic.