2009 • York
March 25, 2009 to March 27, 2009
As part of the semester abroad, the group went on a weekend to the northern English city of York. Located in the former Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, York has had a long and storied history starting as a Roman settlement to its current status as home to the second most important cathedral in England. York Minster is the center of the Church of England in the north of the country and is second only in status to the Canterbury Cathedral in the south. In its history, York also served as the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior as Eboracum and then, later, as one of the most important Viking settlements in England during the Anglo-Saxon period prior to the Norman Conquest.
