Thread: I want to briefly rehearse the problems with the term "Anglo-Saxon" as a medieval term. In sum, it is a term with a racist history--in both Europe and America--since the 19th century at least. It also was not the primary term used in the medieval period.
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I mean it wasn’t too long ago we were still calling the Irish “Celts” in scholarly works. I look through translations that differ all the time. We’ve moved away from “tribes” and “tribal” (at least in the stuff I work with, for the most part).
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It’s ridiculous how much people are clinging to this. If an old white scholar who was well-established at an institution and had 100s of articles said we should make this change somehow I doubt there would be as much pushback.
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