Martin Locker
Landscapes of Pilgrimage in Medieval Britain
My research addresses the aspect of pilgrim travel in Medieval Britain, concentrating on both the practicalities of such a journey and also the interaction between pilgrim and landscape. Concepts such as liminality, sacred & profane space and the wilderness motif are combined with research on the Medieval route network and the archaeological and historical remnants of pilgrimage, in order to address this phenomenon in a holistic manner.
Funding organisation
2009 – 2010: Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust Postgraduate Bursary
2010 – 2011: Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust Postgraduate Bursary
2011 – 2012: Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust Postgraduate Bursary
Supervisors
Educational background
- BA Archaeology, UCL, 2008
- MA Managing Archaeological Sites & Landscapes, UCL, 2009
Locker, M. 2012. The Archaeology of Andorra in Current World Archaeology, Vol. 52, pp 52 – 54.
Conferences:
The Winefride Well and its Pilgrim Landscape’, presented at the Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium in Glasgow, May 2011. ‘St Thomas of Leicester: A most unusual cult’, presented at the ‘Power and the Sacred in the Medieval World’ conference at the University of Leicester, November 2011.
‘An Upholder of Ancient Liberties Against a New-Fangled Tyranny: The Cult of ‘St’ Thomas of Lancaster’, at the Leeds International Medieval Conference. Forthcoming.
‘Landscapes of Devotion: Pilgrim Signs in their Wider Context’, co-authored with Dr Michael Lewis (British Museum), at the ‘Objects and Landscape’ conference at the British Museum. Forthcoming.
