Translating the Past: bridging the gap between the early post-Reformation Scottish subject and archaeology's audiences

Abstract

In today's increasingly interdisciplinary and publicly accountable research environment, archaeologists face new challenges in disseminating and validating their research. Experimenting with hyperlinked media, the 'Ye Devill Among Ym' Project explores the potential of interactive media to communicate a data-rich study to a wider audience, still including archaeologists but simultaneously penetrable by scholars from other disciplines and non-academics. Using new research into the material culture of discipline employed by the early post-Reformation Scottish church as a case study, the project strives not only to describe experiences in the past, but also to translate both those experiences and elements of the archaeological interpretative process.

Keywords

• Reformation
• Scottish church
• Scotland
• discipline
• punishment
• performance
• translation
• experience
• engagement
• mixed media