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Honorary Professor, Member of the Norwegian Academy

Institute for Northern Studies
University of the 杏吧原创 and Islands
Scott's House

Grainshore Road
Kirkwall
Orkney
KW15 1FL

d: +44 (0)1856 569300

Biography

Prof Crawford is also Honorary Reader in History at the University of St. Andrews having spent over thirty years as a teacher in the Department of Mediaeval History. Since taking early retirement in 2001 she has continued to pursue her researches into the history and archaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Scotland, and contacts across the North Sea in the Middle Ages.

Research Interests

Recently completed research projects include
i) The place-names of the Norse-Celtic frontier zone in Northern Scotland (2003)
ii) (2009)                  
iii) The cult of St. Clement in England and Scotland and Scandinavia (2008)
iv) The partial reconstruction of the medieval log-timbered 鈥榮tofa鈥� (2007-8) which was excavated on the island of Papa Stour, Shetland (1977-90)

Prof Crawford's doctoral research was a study of the history of the earls of Orkney-Caithness and their relationships with the kings of Norway and Scotland from the late Norse period until the pledging of the islands to Scotland in 1468. She developed a keen interest in archaeology as part of an inter-disciplinary approach to Norse studies, and has excavated the site of a royal Norwegian farm on the island of Papa Stour in Shetland. The report of that excavation The History and Excavation of a Royal Norwegian Farm at the Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland was published in 1999 jointly by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Prof Crawford has also edited a volume of Conference papers Papa Stour and 1299 (The Shetland Times 2002) resulted from a conference commemorating the 700th Anniversary of Shetland鈥檚 first document and the completion of the Papa Stour excavations. This brings together papers by Scandinavian, Scottish and Polish historians and archaeologists which were also published in Norway as a volume of the academic journal Collegium Medievale (2002. vol. 15).

The same multi-disciplinary approach underlay the successful and innovative study Scandinavian Scotland (Studies in the Early History of Britain. Leicester Univ. Press, 1987, now out-of-print) and an edited book of essays on the place-names of Norse settlement Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain. (Leicester Univ. Press, 1995). She initiated the successful series of Day Conferences at the University of St. Andrews which have focused on 鈥楧ark-Age鈥� Scottish themes - again with a multi-disciplinary content- and edited the papers which have been published as: Scotland in Dark-Age Europe, (St. Andrews. St. John鈥檚 House papers no.5, 1994): Scotland in Dark-Age Britain (St. Andrews. St. John鈥檚 House Papers no.6, 1996): Conversion and Christianity in the North Sea World, (St. Andrews. St. John鈥檚 House Papers no. 8, 1998) (all out-of-print): The 鈥榩apar鈥� in the North Atlantic: Environment and History (St. Andrews. St. John鈥檚 House Papers no.10, 2002).

Select Publications

鈥楩.T. Wainwright and The Problem of the Picts鈥� in Pictish Progress. New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages ed. S. Driscoll, J. Geddes and M. Hall (NW series 50) (Leiden 2011): 3-12

鈥楾he Joint Earldoms of Orkney and Caithness鈥� in The Norwegian Domination and the Norse World c.1100-c.1400, ed. S. Imsen (Trondheim Studies in History 2010): 75-98

鈥楾he Bishopric of Orkney within the Archdiocese of Trondheim, 1152/3-1472鈥�, New Orkney Antiquarian Journal, vol.4, (2009): 47-68

鈥楾he Saint Clement dedications at Clementhorpe and Pontefract Castle: Anglo-Scandinavian or Norman?鈥� in Myth, Rulership and Charters (Ashgate 2008): 189-210

鈥楾he Churches dedicated to St. Clement in Medieval England. A hagio-geography of the seafarers鈥� saint in 11th century North Europe 237pp. Scripta Ecclesiastica Tome 1 (seri茅 suppl茅mentaire 谩 SCRINIUM. R茅vue de Patrologie, d鈥橦agiographie Critique et d鈥橦istoire Ecclesiastique (St. Petersburg 2008)

鈥楾he Cult of Clement in Denmark鈥�, Historia. Jysk Selskab for Historie (脜rhus 2006): 235-282

鈥楰ongemakt og jarlemakt, stedsnavn som bevis? Betydningen av Houseby, Harray og stadir navn p氓 Orkn酶yenes West Mainland鈥� Viking (Norsk Arkeologisk 氓rbok), lxix, (2006): 195-214

鈥楬ouseby, Harray and Knarston in the West Mainland of Orkney. Toponymic indicators of Administrative Authority?鈥� in Names Through the looking-Glass. Festschrift in Honour of Gillian Fellows-Jensen, ed. P.Gammeltoft and B.J酶rgensen, (Copenhagen 2006): 21-44

鈥楾horfinn, Christianity and Birsay: what the saga tells us and archaeology reveals鈥� in The World of Orkneyinga Saga, ed. O.Owen (Kirkwall 2005): 88-110

鈥楾he Sinclairs in the Late Middle Ages鈥� in Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland ed. G.Stell and R.Oram, (RCAHMS 2005): 189-204

The Govan Hogbacks and the Multi-Cultural Society of Tenth-century Scotland (No. 3 in Old Govan Lecture Series 2005)

鈥極rkney in the Middle Ages鈥� in The Orkney Book ed. D.Omand (Edinburgh) (2004): 64-80

鈥楨arldom Strategies in North Scotland鈥� in Sagas, Saints and Settlements ed. G.Williams and P.Bibire (Northern World series 11), (Leiden 2004):105-24

鈥楾he Churches dedicated to St. Clement in Norway. A discussion of their Origin and Function鈥�, Collegium Medievale, 17. (2004): 100-32

The 鈥榩apar鈥� in the North Atlantic: Environment and History (St. Andrews. St. John鈥檚 House Papers no.10, 2002 )