Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the module, students will:
-be familiar with different aspects of social identity in early medieval Ireland and Europe, particularly ethnicity, religion, kinship, gender and social status.
-have a developed sense of the potential and challenges in using archaeological evidence for buildings, landscapes and material culture in the investigation and interpretation of early medieval social identities in Ireland and beyond.
-be able to reflect on, discuss, and develop their own ideas on how people in the past used, and in the present use, material culture to establish, negotiate and perform social identities of gender, status, ethnicity, religion, amongst others