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3.00 Credits
Rome City Series - This on-site survey investigates the history of Rome primarily through its monuments, its architecture and urban form. This course will provide the student with a clear grasp of how the city of Rome has changed over the course of two thousand years from a modest Iron Age settlement on the Palatine Hill to a thriving modern metropolis of the twentieth century. The student will become intimately acquainted with the topography, urban makeup and history of the city and its monuments; and will acquire the theoretical tools needed to examine, evaluate and critically assess city form, design and architecture.
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3.00 Credits
Relationship between settlement and landscape. Starting at the level of individual households, we will consider the social and economic organisation of the co-resident group. Recent discussions in which landscape is seen as more than an economic resourse; the impact of memory, meaning and myth on the human perceptions of the landcape.
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1.50 Credits
Prof. T. O'Keeffe: History of building and building types from earliest times. Interpretation, using case studies from Dublin, we will look at a number of the key concepts in architectural history and criticism, particularly space, syntax, stuyle and technology. The relationships between text and architecture will also be probed in detail. Students will become more sensitive to multiple meanings within the built environment, regardless of its date.
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1.50 Credits
This course has three specific aims. The first is simply to introduce you to Ireland's corpus of medieval castle architecture, and to review some of the current debates about origins and chronology. The second aim is to introduce you to the types of architectural detail that we use for the purposes of dating Ireland's castles, and indeed Ireland's medieval architecture in general. The third is aim is to explore with you a number of approches ( such as the phenomenological, you'll be glad to hear!) with which we might make the corpus of castle architecture speak more eloquently about itself and the society in which it was created. An optional field-trip will be organised as part of the course. Although this course is on castles, it is intended to act as a general course on the archaeology of buildings, and many of the matters that are covered the theoretical approach to building-interpretation, the identification of datable features will be of general interest and value to you.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the archaeology of Celtic Iron Age societies in Europe and Ireland, and the later development of Irish socieety in the early medieval period. The first half of the course will examine Iron Age societies from 750 BC, including contacts with the Classical World, burial rites, metal technology and art, and will look at the demise of these societies under the expanding Roman Empire in Europe. The second part of the course will examine the nature of early medieval Irish society, including settlement sites, economy and trade, the introduction of Christianity and the advent of literacy.
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1.50 Credits
The course examines the meaning of religion and ritual as expressed in the archaeological record. The written sources, both Classical and Vernacular, are considered. It emerges that in very large measure archaeology presents a picture quite distinct from that of the literary record. Archaeological evidence that is examined includes bog bodies and wet sites. The identification of sites as temples and/or cult centers is considered. The importance of depiction of the human image in stone, bronze and wood is analysed. The function of the type of sites known as viereckschanzen will also be considered. Burial and the rite of burial are treated in the context of religion and ritual. The evidence from Ireland, from sites such as Navan Fort, Co. Armagh, is discussed in the context of this array of European data.
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1.50 Credits
An exploration of the concepts of landscape and identity and their influence/effects throughout post-medieval and contemporary Ireland
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1.50 Credits
This course will build on the archaeology of prehistoric Ireland and theoretical perspectives on mortuary practices in past societies. The aim of the course will be to examine changes through time in the treatment of the dead and the ancestors in prehistoric Ireland. This evidence will be used to interpret broader issues such as role of the dead in contemporary society, relationships between the living nad the dead and significance of the patterns of placement of the dead in the landscape.
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1.50 Credits
Taught in Dublin, Ireland - UCD Program
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1.50 Credits
The Scandanavian activity that characterised the Viking Age had a profound impact on many parts of Britain and Ireland. Although traditionally associated with raidings and other destructive activities, more recent research has emphasised the role of the 'Vikings' as economic innovators and the founders and developers of many settlements. This course will focus on archaeological material as well as other sources, particularly the surviving documentary and placename evidence that exists. Upon completion students should have acquired a solid understanding of the insular Scandinavian settlement in the Viking Age.
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