Does anyone have links to good discussion about using anachronistic terminology within medieval studies? I’m being potentially challenged on using early medieval Ireland/Scotland/England but honestly any other terminology at this stage is too general for me. #MedievalTwitter
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I’ve seen ‘Atlantic archipelago’ used for these islands (not, i think, by medievalists); you’d have to explain why at first use of course. Why not ‘Ireland and Britain’? ‘Britain’ can be taken as a geographical and not a political or ethnic designation, no?
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Replying to @MinoWarrior @rmkarras
Err well, sort of. Ireland as the island had many names, and Eriu may have been a pre-Christian deity but we are unsure. The Britons were the Brittonic speaking peoples on the Island of Britain, and Brittonic is a Celtic language but calling them Celts is problematic.
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Because “celt” as an ethnonym has a complicated and debated history and we don’t really use the word anymore to describe people in Britain and Ireland. And the “Anglo-Saxons” as you call them weren’t that, and didn’t think of themselves as that term.
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And also came from many places, so they weren’t just Angles or Saxons. And their identity is a complicated one, and subject to a lot of debate. This is something I have studied on great detail.
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Celts aren’t an ethnic group. They spoke a group of languages that were linguistically related but to assume unity through blood descent is....very problematic.
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