When someone suggested to me a few weeks ago an alternative for AS was “Germanic descent communities” or “British” it was very clear that this person really didn’t seem to know much about the history of any of these terms.
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Replying to @DJMHarland
I say early medieval England, although obviously it is difficult so I need to qualify it but yeah.
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Replying to @DJMHarland
I disagree, because I qualify that in my terminology that I am not saying there is a continuity. No matter what, terminology will be problematic. England was a term from at least the 10th c in the source material.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DJMHarland
Much in the same way I refer to early medieval Scotland or Ireland. Neither of those places “existed” in my period. But unfortunately lowland Britain doesn’t work for me. I say Britain, when referring to Scotland and England but still.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DJMHarland
And since the BIPOC in the field, who have been the target of white supremacist attacks and also have been leading the discussions on this, prefer early medieval England at this stage, I’m gonna stick with that.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DJMHarland
And to be honest, one could make the same argument for “Britain”. But once again, it comes down to how you qualify the terminology. Yes, English nationalism is an issue but so is British nationalism.
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These aren’t terms that have their roots in a white supremacist ideology like Anglo-Saxon. Medievalists no matter what need to qualify that our work does not imply a continuity with modern nation states.
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