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History through Medieval objects/material
in an essay of no more 500-550 words, discuss the STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES of using the history of material culture as the primary method of teaching and learning about the early medieval period. Please must Illustrate your answer with examples drawn from the course materials. i have attached all the material used in class and they are mostly pages from different books by different authors and some links to articles. No need to use outside sources, as this is this more like a reflective report just make sure the essay is clear and argumentative. Please make sure to explain the reasons you provide for the strength and weakness and provide a rational reasonings. You don’t need to talk deeply about all the materials i have attached but please use some of them to discuss the strength and weakness. Not all materials i attached necessarily mention a valuable object, but it can be any object that was important or new/revolutionary for that time, for example “the plough and manorial system”. like i mentioned, I have attached the material that are pages from different books and some of the materials that we used in class are links to articles and i have attached them below this intructions (again not all materials are related to each other, but in a way they all present material culture’s importance in history, if the links i attached do not work, please tell me and ill provide them again ).
1) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/early-medieval-art/x4b0eb531:england/v/sutton-hoo-ship-burial-c-700
2) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/death-and-memory/anglo-saxon-ship-burial-sutton-hoo
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKycy23AZs
4) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mona/hd_mona.htm