Detailed Information
Early Medieval Europe: Social identity and Belonging AD 400-1100
What was it like to be a person in early medieval Europe, AD 400-1100? Who did you think you were, and to what communities did you feel you belonged? How did you use places and things to create and re-negotiate your social identities of ethnicity, kinship, gender, age and social status? What was it like to be a king in Anglo-Saxon England, and how did you use performance, and material possessions to signal power, status and ancestry? What was it like to be a child in a homestead in early medieval Ireland, and how did you experience the world? What was it like to be a young woman on a Norse farm in the wintery fjiords of Greenland, or a trader sailing your boat along the European sea lanes? What was it like to be a monk on an island in the Atlantic, facing out into the abyss of hell across the ocean? This module will explore peoples lives - from birth, through life experiences, to death and their ideas of the afterlife - in the early Middle Ages. We will use evidence from archaeological excavations of houses, dress and costume, burial archaeology and archaeological sciences to explore how alike and different these people were from us, and what this tells us about our own humanity.
Semester 2
Level 3
Lectures: Tuesdays 16:00 - 18:00, beginning 22 January, 2018
Tutorials: There are no tutorials for this module.
If you are taking this module for credit, please take note of the dates below:
Term dates for revision: Saturday, 27 April - Sunday, 5 May
Term dates for exams: Tuesday, 7 May – Saturday, 18 May
Open Learning Fee (audit only) €350 per module
Open Learning Fee (with assessment) €500 per 5 credit module
Upgrading from audit to credit: You may upgrade from being an audit student to a credit student up to three weeks into term. Please note, however, that you can't change back to being an audit student - if you decide not to complete the assignments and/or sit the exams, this will appear on your academic record.
Concessions
There are no concessions available for Open Learning modules.
Refunds
Refunds may in some instances be available for extenuating circumstances, such as serious illness, within two weeks of the start of the module. Requests for refunds must be submitted in writing, with supporting documents where appropriate.
Prof Aidan O'Sullivan