Early Medieval Studies is a fairly neutral replacement for Anglo-Saxon Studies. As folks are discussing online, we might also consider something like Pre-Conquest Medieval Studies (to emphasize the Normal invasion), or Early Medieval Worlds to include Iberia & the Arab World(s).
The problem is that people studying early medieval England but it is called “Anglo-Saxon England”...we need a term for it. I think early medieval England serves okay (some problems but there will always be), but some disagree and that’s fair.
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But I think replacing Anglo-Saxon Studies as Early Medieval Studies could equate early medieval England with the whole of the early medieval world or it flattened the field. We already use Early medieval studies as a general term.
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We could start using Early Medieval Englishes or Anglisc Studies.

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I’m been informed that Anglisc gets used by white supremacists so maybe not that.
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