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Biography

I am a Reader in Medieval Archaeology. I have been Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2002 and became a Reader in 2013. I have also taught for theÌýUniversity of Reading, Oxford University Centre for Continuing Education and have worked for Southern Archaeological Services Ltd. Prior to my archaeological career I served in the Royal Navy Submarine Service.

I obtained my undergraduate degree (1998) from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and went on to complete an MRes (1999) at the same institution. I then completed PhD study at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2004 titled A Social Archaeology of Parish Church Chantries and Chapels: a perspective from the south and west of England. My main research area is in medieval archaeology, particulary the archaeology of medieval religion and belief. I also have an interest in the history and archaeology of Buddhism.Ìý At the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ I teach on BA and MA programmes in archaeology and teach modules in buildings archaeology, the archaeology of Â鶹´«Ã½, the archaeology of medieval religion and belief and the archaeology of Buddhism.

I was also Co-Director (with Dr Phil Marter) of our most recent training excavation, the medieval hospital of St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½ (MHARP). Find out more about the MHARP project.

Areas of expertise

• Church archaeology
• Buildings archaeology
• The archaeology of Â鶹´«Ã½

Publications

Books

• Roffey, S. 2023 An Archaeological History of Hermitages and Eremitic Communities in Medieval Britain and Beyond. Routledge Studies in Archaeology.
• Lavelle, R., Roffey, S and Weikert, K (eds) 2021 Early Medieval Â鶹´«Ã½: Studies in Urban Power and Authority. Oxford: Oxbow
• Lavelle, R. and Roffey, S. (eds) 2015 Danes in Wessex, the Scandinavian impact on southern England ca 800 - 1100. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Roffey, S. 2008 Chantry chapels and medieval strategies for the afterlife. Stroud: Tempus.
• Roffey, S. 2007 The Medieval chantry chapel. An archaeology. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer.

Journals and contributions to edited volumes

• UrbanÌýC.,ÌýBlom A.,ÌýAvanziÌýC.,ÌýWalker-MeikleÌýK.,ÌýWarrenÌýA.K.,ÌýWhite-IribhogbeÌýK.,ÌýTurleÌýR.,ÌýMarterÌýP.,ÌýDawson-HobbisÌýH.,ÌýRoffeyÌýS.,ÌýA.ÌýInskipÌýS.,ÌýSchuenemannÌýV.J. (2024) AncientÌýMycobacterium lepraeÌýgenome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host Current Biology Vol. 34 Iss. 10,ÌýMay 2024, 2221-30.

• Roffey, S,. 2021. ‘SK27: A Â鶹´«Ã½ Pilgrim’ in Lavelle, R., Roffey. S. and Weikert, K., Early Medieval Â鶹´«Ã½: Studies in Urban Power and Authority. Oxbow.
• Roffey, S., 2021 ‘St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½, England: the archaeology and history of an English Leprosarium and almshouse’ in Brenner, E., and Touati, F-O., Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages, 130-160. Manchester University Press.Ìý
• Roffey, S,.2020 ‘SanctityÌýandÌýSuffering:Ìý TheÌýSacredÌýWorldÌýofÌýtheÌýMedievalÌýLeprosarium.ÌýÌýA Perspective fromÌýSt Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™ inLavelle, R. and Langlands, A., The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke, 538-555. Brill.
• Roffey, S 2018 ‘The medieval afterlife’ in Gerrard, C and Gutierrez, A. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology, 868-887.
• Roffey, S., Tucker, K., Filipek-Ogden, K., Montgomery, J., Cameron, J., O’Connell, T., Evans, J., Marter, P. and Taylor, G.M.? (2017) Investigation of a medieval pilgrim burial excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Â鶹´«Ã½, UK. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases? ().
• G.M. Taylor, K. Tucker, R. Butler, A.W.G. Pike, J. Lewis, S. Roffey, P. Marter, O.Y-C Lee, H.H. T. Wu, D.E. Minnikin, G.S. Besra, P. Singh, S.T. Cole, G.R. Stewart 2013, Detection and strain typing of ancient Mycobacterium leprae from a medieval leprosy hospital. PLOS One open-access online publlicationÌý().
• Roffey, S. 2016 ‘Charity and Conquest: leprosaria in early Norman England’ in Hadley, D. and Dyer, C.Ìý The Archaeology of the 11^th Century, Ìý159-176, Routledge.
• V.J. Schuenemann, P. Singh, T.A. Mendum, B. Krause-Kyora, G. Jäger, K.I. Bos, A. Herbig, C. Economou, A. Benjak, P. Busso, A. Nebel, J.L. Boldsen, A. Kjellström, H. Wu, G.R. Sewart, G.M. Taylor, P. Bauer, O.Y.-C. Lee, H.H.T. Wu, D.E. Minnikin, G.S. Besra, K. Tucker, S. Roffey, S.O. Sow, S.T. Cole, K. Nieselt, J. Krause 2013, Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae. Science 12 July 2013, Vol. 341 No 6142 pp 179-83Ìý().

• Roffey, S. and Tucker, K. 2012 'A contextual study of the medieval hospital and cemetery of St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½, England', International Journal of Paleopathology,ÌýVolume 2, Issue 4.Ìý.
• Roffey, S. 2012. Medieval leper hospitals in England: an archaeological perspective from St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½. Medieval Archaeology 56, 203-34.
• Roffey, S and Marter, P. 2012. Treating leprosy St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½. Current Archaeology, 267. 12-18.CBA.
• Roffey, S and Marter, P. 2012 Excavations at St Mary Magdalen Â鶹´«Ã½ 2008-2012 Hampshire Field Club Newsletter, 57. 3-4.
• Roffey. S. 2011 ‘Romantic anachronisms? Chantry chapels of the nineteenth century’. In: King, C. and Sayer, D. The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion. Woodbridge: Boydell, pp 67-82.
• Roffey, S. and Marter, P. 2011 St Mary Magdalen Hospital Â鶹´«Ã½, British Archaeology 117, 22-27.
• Roffey, S. 2010a Recent Excavations at St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½, Medieval Archaeology 54.
• Roffey, S. 2010b Excavations at St Mary Magdalen, Â鶹´«Ã½. Monastic Research Bulletin 16, 43-49.
• Roffey, S. 2010 Planning for the afterlife: The chantry chapels of Salisbury Cathedral. Sarum Chronicle 9, 19-29.
• Roffey, S. with Cohen, N. et al. 2009 ‘The medieval period’ In D. Divers, C. Mayo, N. Cohen and C. Jarrett (eds) A New Millennium at Southwark Cathedral: Investigations into the First Two Thousand Years. Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph No. 8.
• Roffey, S 2007 Constructing a vision of salvation: chantries and the social dimension of religious experience in the medieval parish church. Archaeology Journal 163, 122-46.
• Roffey, S. 2006 Devotional objects and cultural context: the medieval parish church. In V.C. Raguin (ed.) Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538 - 1850, pp 21-30.
• Roffey, S. 2005 Recording the parish church fabric: objective and subjective approaches to structural analysis. For the Institute of Field Archaeologist Annual Conference 2005, Â鶹´«Ã½.
• Roffey, S. with Hines, J. and Cohen, N. 2004 'Iohannes Gower, Armiger, Poeta: records and memorials of his life and death.' In: S. Echard (ed.) A Gower Companion. Woodbridge: Boydell, pp 1-41.
• Roffey, S. 2004 Reconstructing English medieval parish church chantries and chapels: an archaeological approach. Church Archaeology 5-6, 62-68.
• Roffey, S. 2003 'Deconstructing a symbolic world: the Reformation and the English medieval parish chantry.' In: D. Gaimster and R. Gilchrist, (eds), The Archaeology of Reformation. Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph 1, pp 341-56.
• Roffey, S. 2000 The rise and fall of the medieval chantry movement. Ecclesiology Today 22, 18-23.
• Roffey, S. 1999 The Southwark Cathedral Archaeological Project. Church Archaeology 3, 12-16.
• Roffey, S. 1998 The early history and development of St Marie Overie Priory, Southwark. London Archaeologist Vol. 8 No. 10, 255-26.

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