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).

• 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.

'… vivid and stimulating book … Roberta Gilchrist paves the way for a stronger interlocking of medieval archeology and monument protection in relation to the sacred heritage, whereby medieval archeology through dedicated material research religiosity plays a central role.' Stephen Magnussen, Sehepunkte